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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the selections have been chosen so that they do not duplicate commercial recordings. The bass aria, "O ruddier than the cherry," is an exception. Obviously it has been included for the very good reason that Paul Tibbetts is singing it, but it is one of the dullest pieces the Handel ever wrote. Marguerite Willauer has much better material for her fine soprano voice in "As when the dove laments her love" and "Heart, the seat of soft delight...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...nation of sabbath-keepers who do not go to church . . . We get free spectacles and false teeth and, for lack of hospital beds, may die in a ditch. We have probably the best children and the dullest adults in Europe. We are a Socialist-Monarchy that is really the last monument of liberalism." Speaking in Faversham, Kent, Tory Robert Boothby posed an earthier dilemma. To him, the proposed reduction of food imports seemed "a pretty prospect -an endless vista of free false teeth with nothing to bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Three Fusils Conjoined | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Professor Emerson, the head of the department, rounds out the bulk of the international section with a course on International Organization and one on Nationalism in International Relations. Unfortunately he is by far the dullest lecturer of the group and his classes suffer accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...Road Between, is possibly the dullest novel by a prominent U.S. writer in several decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No End in Sight | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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