Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look at me, you'd never guess I used to be a dull guy," he says. "My idea of a wild time was Kool-Aid and oatmeal cookies. At parties, I stayed in the room with the coats." Dipping toward the sick, he tells about a friend, the author of What to Do in Case of Peace, who prophesied that on May 1, 1951, the world would come to an end. "For him it did," Vernon remembers. "He was eating in the Automat and the little glass door snapped down and broke his neck. That night in the hospital...
...crowd liked Lewis. But then came more speeches, some of them rather dull, and all of them overlong. People began to mill around, many even started to leave. But their attention was captured once again by a slender, low-toned speaker wearing a blue legionnaire-type cap. He was Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who was introduced as the "acknowledged leader" of the civil rights movement. Wilkins talked quietly of the necessity for passage of President Kennedy's bill. "The President's proposals," he said, "represent so moderate...
...steamy, palm-shaded Kuching, capital of Sarawak, the day's biggest excitement is the firing of the 8 p.m. cannon on the lawn of government house. "What a dull place," said a United Nations official. "I don't know how we're going to survive three weeks here." At the insistence of Indonesia's President Sukarno, an eight-member U.N. team is present to "ascertain" whether Sarawak and North Borneo really want to join the Federation of Malaysia, which Sukarno bitterly opposes. As the U.N. ascertainers began to sample opinions around Sarawak, they were nearly stoned...
City school officials tend to use vo-ed schools as dumping grounds for the dull and the delinquent. The teachers, equipment and training methods are often so far behind the times that, in effect, the schools teach students to be unemployable. Last year a report by the Taconic Foundation concluded that the usefulness of New York City's vocational schools is "extremely questionable." Frank Cassell, personnel director of Inland Steel Co., says that "vocational education in Illinois bears about the same relationship to the real needs of industry as the shovel and the pickax do to the equipment demands...
...curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and Lawrence Alloway, curator of the Guggenheim. The paintings in the show are "limp and unconvincing," said Selz in a short talk. "It is the want of imagination, the passive acceptance of things as they are, that makes these pictures dull and unsatisfactory. It is as easy to produce as it is to consume...