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...Education is indeed the dullest of subjects," remarks Jacques Barzun in his newly published Teacher in America (Little, Brown; $3), "and I intend to say as little about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching in America | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...society's Cornelius Vanderbilt: "This is the dullest, wettest political convention I ever attended. . . . Sitting here in this vast arena where history has been carved out so many times before, I cannot help but be reminded of the mediocrity of these meager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Seals at Chicago | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...large, one of the dullest theater seasons in the memory of man. Broadway simply took the cash and let the credit go. Neither the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle could find any U.S. play of the season worthy of a prize; but business was brisk enough to create acute theater shortages for weeks on end.* For a time theatrical junk collecting was so much the rage that, according to Columnist Walter Winchell, a wag hoped his new show would be able "to overcome the good notices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Late Unlamented | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...only new comic strip he had bought in nine years. The Deer herself was a beauteous Egyptian princess who in the fourth installment suffered death, then awakened 3,000 years later in a U.S. museum. From there she fared forth to undergo some of the dullest adventures ever seen in a comic strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Death of Deathless Deer | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

There was resentment at having been treated "like children" when Herr Goebbels announced that the North African campaign had never been considered decisive anyway. The dullest man in the street knew that Goebbels had tricked them; every German feared now that the next Allied move would be against the Continent. German newscasts noted the massing of Allied troops in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Over Their Shoulders | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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