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...line of the department. Elliott is still confusing some with his provocative and much advanced lectures on theory in Government 1, though a new text book helps straighten out neophytes. Cherington and Friedrich, however, will replace Holcombe in the next fall. This change should make what many considered the duller half of the required course, as interesting, perhaps more so than is, certainly just as mealy...
Spearheading the network counterattack, Dr. Kenneth H. Baker, research director of the National Association of Broadcasters, bluntly charged that educational TV would probably be even duller than the commercial variety, because 1) educators do not understand the sight-&-sound medium, nor are they willing to use it when they do; 2) their experiments with radio have so far been a "dismal failure"; and 3) as a group, educators have proved too incompetent to justify their using any part of the broadcast spectrum...
...highlighted the '47 campaign, and the duller competitors fled the field. Inspired by the speech given by Sally Rand in a pre-war Smoker battle, titled "What the Stage Door Johnny is Looking for When He Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door," two candidates brought strippers Sally Keith and Scar- lett Kelly from the Old Howard to talk to the freshmen...
Shaw had an inspired instinct for success; innate prudence combined shrewdly with presumption in getting it. Emigration to a duller and richer civilization than his own he saw was the only safe thing for a man who found destructiveness so exhilarating. It was the only sure escape from Irish melancholy and cynicism. In Victorian England, the young Shaw found enough to last him a lifetime. As a middle-class individualist of the highest power, who believed that poverty was a crime, who married a rich and intelligent wife and made a fortune which could be compared with that...
Spain's political scene would be a duller place without Luisa's fiery manifestoes, Spain's prison a duller place without her silk pajamas...