Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even worse, Ribicoff found himself outside the President's inner circle of confidants. It was the technicians of the Cabinet-McNamara, Dillon, Rusk-who had the President's ear, but they rarely saw fit to question his political judgment. So Abe was reduced to the dull and thankless job of administering a department...
...program also includes a selection of readings. There are too many of them, and they are too diverse to have any unity. Some of them were poor and even dull; but some of them seem to do something that I, for one at least, never imagined could be done in a theatre...
...generation of Bolsheviks can be cheered by the findings of John Richard Skretting, a Florida State University professor who tried out Florida's course in a laboratory school: "Some kids don't like Communism because they've had to sit through six weeks of the dull stuff...
...most imaginations, the term educational television instantly produces a picture of a threadbare professor with terminal logorrhea, droning on and on and on. But educational TV has long since set higher standards than that, and no one is less interested in the dull professor than the people who are shaping the future of educational...
Educational TV does not always deserve an A-plus. There are still plenty of dull didactic hours on all its stations, and N.E.T. supplies only ten hours of new programming a week, partly acquired from the BBC and other foreign producers but generally produced by the network itself and its affiliates. Mainly, local stations have to fill their time independently, and much of it is devoted to yawning forums and tediously detailed state histories (Nicholas Nobody slept here). But some local programs are excellent, and these are picked up by N.E.T. for distribution to the whole network...