Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiments with subliminal perception, enterprising radio station KOL planned to use TV's own secret-pitch technique as its weapon. This week, behind the playing of some of its 40 hit disks, KOL will murmur some insidious suggestions: "TV is a crashing bore," "Goodness, isn't TV dull?" and "Those TV westerns are all the same." Planned but scissored at the last minute: "TV gives you eye cancer." Says a KOL executive: "These jazzy little radio subliminals may not take anybody off the TV kick, but putting them on the air will be a form of public service...
...science is presented as a body of facts," he continued, "it is dehumanized and dull; but if it is presented as the product of the creative imagination, then, through the interaction of man and nature, the striving for truth and order and beauty makes of science a worthy subject for the humanistic education of the twentieth century...
Keynesian economics, for many years a dirty word in the Republican Party's rhetoric, has been accepted by the Administration more as a playtoy than an effective method of economic management. Fiscal policy planning is an awesome thing, something to be handled gingerly lest it dull all sensibility and impose itself on the player's mind...
...dialogue there are enough "prithees," "goodwives," and "forsooths" to clog the collective gullet of The Lambs' club. As for the problem of delineating character, it is solved simply. Characters express emotion by changing color-from pink to grey, scarlet, dull red and "glistening" chalk white, until the fascinated reader feels like the chameleon, which is said to become a nervous wreck when nudged across a plaid bedspread...
Clemente, Author Soldati's hero, is a shy, pimply, touchy, clever, nervous adolescent who finds it more difficult to chin the inflexible horizontal bar of manhood than do the dull louts whom he outshines in class but cannot outrun on the playground. At first sight, the problem seems ordinary. Should Clemente yield himself to the incitements of his wakening sexuality or keep himself a fit vessel of grace? As Soldati tells it, Clemente's sex proliferates through his veins like the roots of a tree under a marble pavement...