Word: duller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
...write it. Freely and rather irresponsibly, he tacks together the familiar Hopkins characteristics-his social work beginnings, his poor health and cadaverous looks, his rise to Olympus as Roosevelt's closest adviser. But these traits clothe a synthetic creature wholly unlike Hopkins in his private involvements and far duller than Harry in his political intrigues. Much, of the book is taken up with Ivey's having a mysterious fit in wartime London (he has them all the time). The Old Country peasant remedy that can save him is known only to the book's heroine, Julie...