Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stuart Hughes, who likes to remember that he was an assistant professor and George Cabot Lodge only an undergraduate when they were neighbors in Lowell House, once remarked that Lodge at Harvard was "a dull boy, but nice...
Hughes was half right. George Lodge is still nice, but he has never been dull. And unlike the other Harvard man in the Senate race, he graduated with honors with his own class, the class of 1950. Lodge never made much noise while he was here, and maybe the professor took quietness for dullness...
...Klemperer is not always in such form. His reverence for detail sometimes betrays him into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached...
...Band show, which was seen by more than a million persons on CBS television, was devoted to great comedy acts of the year. The Prize for the friendliest performance went to Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev for their recent love affair. Dartmouth's musicians contented themselves with a rather dull precision drill...
Collector Chrysler was more certain. He insisted: "I'm satisfied with all the pictures. I don't make any claim for their being the greatest examples of each artist; but we can't look at masterpieces all the time. I think that would be rather dull...