Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trapped. During the regular College year he read The New Yorker religiously, since it was the established fodder for many cocktail conversations, but during the summer he rarely ever picked it up. It rather bored him, acquiring a dull sameness after the first year's reading...
Impatient of the dull details of a law case or parliamentary debate he prefers to delegate the slogging staff work of poltics; he can skim a 300-page legal brief to his satisfaction in an hour and a half. Canadians say that he is their "first Prime Minister with a hearty laugh...
...blind as a bat." But he tries to resist most demands by touchy viewers, even risks letting "damn" or "hell" stay in a script if it seems unforced. "If we don't reflect the real world around us," he says, "radio and TV are going to be awfully dull, and competitively, we'll get clobbered...
This basic conflict is also broadened into the whole debate in the Don Juan scene on the relative merits of Heaven and Hell. Again on the surface, Heaven is portrayed as incredibly dull while Hell is presented as the home of beauty and idealism...
...repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress alike--the father trim and intelligent, the son fat and dull-witted; and they fall into the hands of a pair of cops, who of course also dress alike...