Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON recommends recruiting a Harvard Legion of blockade runers to keep the city victualled. With all displaced New Yorkers enlisting and Seymour Harris serving as Quartermaster General, the great city should have no trouble in defeating Albany's dull and plodding tyranny...
Secondly, studies are gobbling up more and more of the week's 168 hours. Amid rueful jokes about "creeping Lamontism," students are finding less and less time for extra-curricular activities of any sort, and many hesitate to devote long hours to dull meetings. Others are content to mutter scornfully, "Boys must have their little games...
...suffers from an occasional note of strain and shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...
Television, according to Paul Johnson in the New Statesman, is "the apotheosis of ignorance: its dull, electronic eye mirrors back, down to the smallest detail, the fuzzy thinking and factual vagueness of its uneducated audience. Yet, Johnson believes, the professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
...sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...