Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days long since past. Frank Crowninshield, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, considers society from 1888 to the post war age in "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat." Dividing his recollections into the Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed, to be bored." Society eventually relaxed and dinners speeded up from two hours to 55 minutes. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish "injected candour where before she had found cant," and laughter "replaced an owlish gravity of demeanour...
Harvard's basketball team whipped Williams, 66 to 57, in a dull, sluggish contest on the Ephs' home court Saturday night...
...digging than it is of discerning. It is less large projects of reconstruction than it is large efforts of imagination and even larger exercises of scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
...Classic sportswear?" asks the Women's Wear Daily rhetorically. "That's dull--left to the Wellesley Conservatives...
After reading your article on education, I feel even more positive that the attention is focused completely on the "bright" student, the "dull" student, and the student who is a problem because of discipline...