Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favors. In the early part of the 20th century, the mistress of an influential politician had a better chance to get into the Comédie Française than a talented actress. In unimaginative hands, the great French theatrical tradition of the Comédie became musty and dull...
...bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with the thoroughness of a Baedeker and the sincerity of a presentation designed to steal...
...rambling fashion Clair's plot tells of two prison buddies who want to escape their dull routine "pour la liberte." One of them succeeds and soon becomes president of a phonograph factory. The other, an incorrigible remanticist, is captured. After his subsequent release, he takes a job on the assembly line in his materialist friend's plant. The two discover each other, the police discover the materialist, and they start all over again...
...Athenaeum, Latin for "School of Oratory," began in the Spring of 1953, and by the Fall of the same year it was again history. Its opening was a real production: ambassadors of good will gave long, dull speeches, the principal speakers wore tuxedos, and an audience of several hundred graciously applauded Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Vicreck as he prepared to attack intellectuals for opposing Stalinism less ardently than other forms of totalitarianism. Before he could say a word, however, an enthusiastic Athenacumite shouted an amendment to the debate proposition; the Chairman growled, Vicreck frowned, and the organizers wondered if such...
...Deep Blue Sea (London Film; 20th Century-Fox), if not soap opera, is certainly no better than detergent drama. In this British movie, Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan seems to be cautioning the middle-aged married woman about switching from a dull husband to a young lover: the change may only mean a painful, new set of harness sores...