Word: dulling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Overrun by Administrators. Goodman is best known for his writings on the plight of modern youth. Growing Up Absurd argues that today's problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...
...show, you see, comes in the best of its songs, which--like the madrigals and the ballads--are at once both charming pieces of music and very gentle spoofs of themselves. The rest of the show, however--the jokes, the patter, the thundering choruses--is so much dross: dull, dated, tiresome stuff. Unfortunately, Mr. Tigar, or whoever, seems to find the dross screamingly funny, and the music rather second-rate. Consequently, he has built up an unmusical and ungainly case which closely resembles the staggerer I posed to you a while back, and he has stuffed the poor Yeomen...
...contest was hardly a dull one, though. Time and again the Crimson forwards blasted away at the Yale goal as halfbacks Fred Akuffo and Chuck Okigwe fed them the ball and fullback John Stevens cleared on defense. Sometimes the pressing paid off. In the first period Keith Chiappa blasted a goal from ten yards out, and in the third quarter Dave Taft found the nets on another good shot...
...year-old protegee of Quinquagenarian Sir William Hamilton, then English ambassador to Naples. Emily, who later became Lady Hamilton, and still later helped Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar, used to sashay around her villa swathed in clinging Greek robes. "Our fair entertainer seems to me, frankly, a dull creature," Goethe reports, adding judicially, "Perhaps her figure makes...
...Profile Analysis matched NBC's Dewline, and there was an easygoing rapport in the air as Cronkite nonchalantly tossed the ball to Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner, David Schoenbrun or Charles Collingwood. ABC hugely improved its coverage and managed to run a poor third, giving too much time to dull human analysis while the network's computer was failing to get a word in edgewise...