Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, technical quality alone can be quite sterile, as a rather large, well done and excruciatingly dull picture of the Loeb proves. What really makes the few fine pictures in the Festival is the photographer's eye for the significant and his ability to capture it. There are few finer shots than Frank Denman's Negro couple hugging in an open display of emotion or few worse than his shot of a nobody looking at nothing in particular on a stage...
Committee chairmen took up Gutheim's message. All asked that planners remember that American society is fragmented and physically and socially mobile. They warned against dull and unexciting architecture, and against designs which do not take into account the complete nature of the site...
...grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba last year and in Pravda proclaimed: "Revolution may be grim but not, goddamit, dull...
...Senatorial campaign will have little interest: the Republican incumbent, Senator Kuchel, is expected to run a dull campaign and win easily. The only force which might topple him is the same one which now threatens to scuttle Nixon's hopes almost before they have been launched: other Republicans. Nixon, of course, will also have the problem of tough Democratic opposition from incumbent Governor Pat Brown in November, but like Kuchel, his real troubles are in his own backyard, and they may prove too much...
...listen carefully to John Cage's accompaniment of electronic whines, buzzes, piercing, shrieking tones, and cacophonous static. The endless, disjunctive movements and music discouraged close attention: without looking, without listening, one knew that it would be more of same, more of same. Variety at random is just plain dull...