Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school boy, be expelled from the community, serves only to show the political hue of the picture. The council's cunning brush is attempting to swab Harvard with such brilliant and tawdry colors, that beside it Plan E may look dull, important, and anaemic on the ballot...
Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
...music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull but makes many Holly-wood A pictures soporific by comparison. Best bit part: Pygmy kibitzer sneering at the bridge building...
...well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems ragged and confused. This Hemingway explains by saying that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds that it can be sharpened again, and after it is sharpened he knows he will have something to write about-he wants to live long enough to write three more novels and 25 more stories. Readers of his new book are likely...
...important editorial last Monday, when commenting on the enrollment statistics. In the face of probably the most disturbing revelations in the educational field in years, the Crimson contented itself with murmuring that, while Harvard did not want to become a group of vocational schools, nonetheless compulsory, irrelated courses were dull and valueless. The point at issue seems much rather to be: precisely what, if any, educational program exists today of Harvard The solution to the mystery of departmental fluctuations is the tragic, but simple one, that nobody has any clear idea of the purpose of an intellectual institution. Courses...