Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herald [Jan. 4]. At the risk of seeming captious, however, I must say that I think you did the Herald an injustice when you described it as dreary. Not that there isn't a dreary paper in this town, but it is the Christian Science Monitor, which is dull, dull, dull-and such a sacred cow, such a status symbol, that though people cannot stand it, they nevertheless call it a great newspaper. It's a terrible bore, really. The same cannot be said of the Herald...
...very much like another British movie of a few years back, which also delineated the epic struggle of an effete young draftee to rise in the Army ranks. The difficulty is that, unlike Private's Progress, Lawrence of Arabia takes itself very seriously. As a result, it is dull, four-hours long, and costs $3.00. You cannot possibly help but dislike it, if you are headstrong enough to bother seeing it; and if the wee hours do find you emerging from the Gary Theatre, the following reasons for not having enjoyed yourself will be racing through your affronted mind...
...reports Cat $22.50 a year). One effect is to undercut a racket that has grown up from the rush for higher education. To the dismay of reputable college counselors, a number of unscrupulous advisers work covert retainers from academically weak, dishonest colleges, charge parents big fees to get dull-witted youngsters into those same colleges-and then get a kickback (10% of tuition) from the college...
...schooling. In provocative contrast, Machlup suggests just the opposite: lowering the age. The chief effect of raising it, he says, "is to spread the same academic curriculum over a longer period." As a result, it takes more time to learn the same thing, and teaching may get worse. The dull hate learning more than ever, and the bright suffer because standards fall. In the end, this simply costs more money, requires more teachers, and produces fewer truly educated people. Machlup's idea is to compress the entire span of education so that students finish high school...
Mother Advocate now shines from the newsstands 64 pages big, prettily disguising her prodigious fatness in gay covers, blue, white and green. But gluttony is not so easily concealed and inside all the evidences are there, aimless hulks of matter lacking any energy or muscle. So somnolent, dull and lifeless an Advocate I have not seen before, for the editors have ruthlessly stuffed her full of all the idle weeds that grow in our sustaining corn...