Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work as a waiter in a 25?-a-meal restaurant in New Orleans. There he dived into a world of jazz, bars, pimps and sexual outcasts that populate his first short-story collection, called One Arm. He also officially adopted his nickname of Tennessee ("Tom Williams was rather dull...
Student bureaucracy is dull, alas, but in your article of February 28 on the Radcliffe House System you have made it even duller. In fact, if not in the CRIMSON, East House has done more than "schedule several events." We have instituted lunch hours (from 12:30-1:45 in Eliot and Whitman); we have held a series of Sunday teas with members of the Administration, the Faculty and the Radcliffe Institute; we have had two and plan three more House Dinners with Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students interested (though not necessarily specializing) in a particular field, such as music...
...trouble of making from Arthur Miller's worst play, A View From the Bridge; who knows why (but don't get us wrong; we love Hollywood). At the Fenway (KE 6-0610),we would revert to our former mode of discourse to note that The Markis as dull as a film about a leching Humbert-type can be. Finally, at the Sack (CO 7-9030), Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness reek of Absence de Gout (perfume and toilet water respectively) in A Majority...
...Chassidic niggun!" He speaks of the "irresolute student who apparently wishes to lick the icing of identification without eating the cake of commitment," and, in his final paragraph, he addresses the neo-Hasids directly: "To all of vou neo-Hasids, including myself, I bequeath a Bris [circumcision] with the dull blade of superficiality...
...What's wrong with that? Modern girls don't have to wait until they're noticed." Father Vasily Andreevich groped for words and cried: "Shame! How can our daughter debase herself to the point of running after foreigners?'' Answered Svetlana: "Russian boys are dull." And how could she converse with tourists when the only English word she knew was goodbye? Said Svetlana: "We get along without words...