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...Author Farrell's mealy prose and chronic inability to individualize scene and character muffle most of his stories. In describing a summer stock production in one of the dullest of them, he comes close to summing up his own worst faults...
...whose forte, in private and public life, was planting cabbages of common sense. His countrymen rewarded him with the highest office they could bestow, yet they never quite forgave plain, plodding John for the aloofness that seemed to go with the common sense. He has been called the dullest of the Founding Fathers-not without reason, but certainly without enough...
...those who have ever read a book of Fanny Burney's I bow. To those who dare challenge the statement that she was one of God's dullest creatures, (a medieum of literary wit notwithstanding) I take off my hat. But to those who say that Emily Hahn has not written an excellent biography of Fanny Burney, dullness or no, I reply in heated words. "A Degree of Prudery" is that miracle of writing: an absorbing book about an almost flat person...
Most everybody agreed that the dullest show of 1950 seemed to be the Academy Awards presentation itself at Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater. A day before, Daily Variety had filled its front page with a completely accurate poll takers' forecast of the big awards. No one was surprised at the absence of foreign films or players among the major winners. Unlike last year, when Britain's Hamlet carried the day, none had been nominated. But the Academy's directors found it in their hearts to create a special award for Vittorio De Sica...
...Public Papers contain three main kinds of material: 1) official presidential papers which, whatever their reference value, are often the dullest kind of reading; 2) speeches ranging from fireside chats to campaign broadcasts; and 3) White House press conferences...