Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among those who stayed on, there was a paralyzing sense of frustration and fatalism. Life was not only hard-it was dull. To many Irishmen, the perverse, pervasive mediocrity of their culture was typified by Gaelic-worship...
...rare moments, Miller is funny. When Harry's ex-girl seeks him out in the prostitute's apartment, Harry snarls at her: "Are ya tryin' to break up a home?" But mainly the dialogue is dull and dead. In the end, Harry is dead too, and gone to limbo, where he tries hopelessly to ignite the stage with a flaming speech: "I don't belong. I don't want to belong. I don't want to kill anybody to save the world. It's not my problem. I got bigger problems...
...hours. The committeemen picked Atlantic City as the site for the 1964 presidential convention, set the date for Aug. 24, six weeks after the G.O.P. convention to be held in San Francisco's Cow Palace. One reason for the site choice was that Democrats figure on a rather dull convention in which Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson will be routinely renominated. Atlantic City's besonged Boardwalk might offer bored delegates a chance for cut-rate, nonpolitical amusement...
Against the energy and verve of Miss Milgrim, Joanne Hamlin's Cynthia is occasionally a bit dull, but her eyes do light up glecfully at the mention of horse racing. It is clear that this woman likes a gay life and has been deprived of it for some time. Her anger is powerful and her tears womenly; at times she is the only person on stage acting like a real human being...
...begins with the notorious Economics S-1, "Principles of Economics." The largest course in the University during the regular school year, "ec 1" is a dull but "valuable" introduction. It is the course most students, in their more dutiful moments, vow they "must take" and few regret it. You too can be attacked by your local American Legion...