Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important issues of the year in special feature articles on expansion, the theater, politics, tutorial, and religion. But the wooden prose of these articles overlays and calls to attention ideas based on straw men and poor research. The article on expansion, important as the subject is, is only a -dull and wordy rehearsal of well known arguments on both sides of the issue, and a listing of some of the financial and personnel problems. Throughout the article confusingly mixes the task of raising funds for a home to care for the present overcrowding with the quite different problem of expansion...
...this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while a disaster (on the battlefield) can be a party. As for military U speech: "Although it is perfectly U to be wounded, it is slightly...
...duets are rather tiring, except that Ruth Nason, as the lethargic but lovely adornment of a banker's bed, is the only member of the cast who seems really to be having a good time. Her acting is exaggerated, but happy. As the inevitable French butler, Earl Edgerton is dull, but in the role of a half-mad old man, David Roberts gives the finest performance of the evening. He is imaginative, witty and relaxed. In contrast, Lucia French, playing a disillusioned actress, seems embarrassed and tense...
...which the people on stage find themselves. But the important characters in Shangri-La have no real problem since their story turns on accidents over which they have no control. As a result, their airy musings, based on nothing more solid than some vague discontent, are irrelevant, obvious, and dull...
...pointless all the philosophical utterances really are, since they deal with a question that, the way the authors have slanted it, can have only one answer. And Lew Ayres' acting does not reveal any hidden relevance. He is quite competent, but when he gets through with them, the dull lines are still dull. Supprisingly enough, much the same is true for Martyn Green, who pays one of the monks. The star of many Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Green has demonstrated in the past that he is one of the finest, if not the finest, of the singing comedians working today...