Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his Irish patronymic, Brenan is at pains to make clear that he came from a long, dull line of clodheaded north-of-England squires and manufacturers. His father was a professional soldier of limited mind, his mother a vague sort. Neither wasted affection on their solitary son, whose sole oddity consisted in his early-formed will to remain solitary. On the surface he was dutiful and won a scholarship to Radley, where he learned the natural eccentric's trick of fitting himself to the prescribed philistine middle-class mold while preserving his essence intact. His hero was Rimbaud...
Where's Charley? could easily have been a very dull show. The music, while rousing, is not memorable, and although some of the lines are catchy, only careful control of facial expression, action and pacing will make them produce laughter. But the Winthrop House production of this musical is a wonderful show, filled with life, wit, and fun. Director Lewis Kaden, with the help of several fine actors, has exploited every opportunity for humor and warmth...
...Science 31, which covers everything from public speaking to behavorial psychology, is considered particularly worthwhile. Nevertheless, there is a consensus that many of the textbooks are filled with so much trivia that reading is often dull and unenlightening chore. Probably a representative opinion is that of cadet David B. McIlhiney '64, who said, "A great deal of the curriculum has not been and never can be directed toward the intellectual. Yet Harvard AFROTC would greatly benefit from a more academic approach...
...education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...eight-week election campaign, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Lester Pearson were politicians in search of an issue. The crowds turned out in numbers, but the oratory sounded as if it were from a leftover LP record, and this time the campaigners were playing the dull side. In the final stage of the campaign, just when he seemed to be running out of things to say, John Diefenbaker decided that he had found his issue...