Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Russians themselves agree. The current issue of Kommunist, the official magazine of the Communist Party's Central Committee, decided that there was no ducking that dreary fact any longer. Soviet papers, said Kommunist in a candid piece of selfcriticism, all sing the same dull tune in the same dull way. "If it were not for the titles and the names of districts, enterprises and collective farms, any one of these papers could be replaced by another one, and neither the reader nor even the editorial employees would notice. The majority of the articles are written...
...sent out by the press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung together by writers who are "superficial dilettante journalists...
John Ratte's cover is excellent and Stanley Polumbo's rendition of Oedipus' encounter with the Sphinx is colloquial without being dull, poetic without being poetical. According to the Notes, Judith Johnson, author of "The Tide Begins to Ebb" ("I have gone through the streets/ and studied every motion that I made ..."), "writes poems, plays and stories. She is a freshman living in Cabot Hall...
...stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally, throw the pillow across the hall at a particularly dull archdeacon. The chief merit of The Republic of Letters (besides establishing the author as one of that republic's leading citizens) is a feeling it generates in the reader-the feeling that the books under discussion must be read at the first opportunity, or, if they have been read, must...
Then everyone sat back for the dull part. Reason: London's Stock Exchange does not close until 4:30 p.m., and no Chancellor tips his hand until the day's trading is finished. Accordingly, Rab Butler started slowly. In 3½ years of Tory stewardship, he reported, real wages have risen 6%, earnings of industry 9%. production 10%. But "problems can spring from the very success which it has been our happy lot to achieve...