Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this one has come to expect from the G & S Players; they possess the singular ability of fashioning entertainment out of dull nineteenth-century spoofs. But because of the ridiculously large number of playlets that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote, they can only occasionally hit upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around...
Cheers for Professor Trace's findings on the differences in education in Russia and the U.S. [Nov. 17]. Pressuring many of our bright young minds, before they are ready for tackling reading, and then feeding them a diet of dull, repetitious words, is one very good reason why Johnny can't read. He doesn't want to. Give him a cross section of the human body and watch him work...
...highly publicized and highly priced Harvard Playboy premier at Harkness Commons was rather dull indeed. For those who had come expecting a reasonable facsimile of the parties Playboy so temptingly describes from time to time, the Harvard version was downright miserable...
...dogma of "vocabulary control"-holding down each reader to only a few new words. The rules are often "downright exquisite," says Trace. Widely used readers boast that "no new words" appear for 100 pages or more; the old words are endlessly repeated; the stories are inevitably dull. "Insipid, trivial, inane, pointless," Trace calls them...
What matters most of all, of course, is Big John Wayne, the biggest moneymaker in Hollywood history. In 35 years Wayne's 155 movies have grossed $300 million and his broad, dull, pleasant. Hereford face has become as much a part of the western scene as the Petrified Forest. But at 54, Big John is getting a bit long in the tooth and short in the wind for all this biffbang and muscling around. In Comancheros the camera discreetly looks the other way whenever he tries to haul himself up the side of a horse. The day is plainly...