Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Advance has more or less circuitously discovered its metier; I suspect that as it grows older it will stick to what it does best. To be sure, it must do that better. Without exception, its features are excruciatingly dull, and many, indeed, are wretchedly written. I suppose they will improve. Advance will soon be very rich, they will attract learned and important contributors. The thought that they seem already to have forgotten the larger things they hoped to do is only briefly painful...
Your article "Programed Learning" is most unjust in its blanket criticism of textbooks. How did your education editor and Psychologist Skinner get so smart using the allegedly dull, inflexible, incomprehensible textbooks? And without the benefit of a programed learning machine...
...achievements: Meet Mr. Lincoln, The Coming of Christ). Hyatt knows that the movie camera, which is almost automatically taking over TV, is not necessarily TV's best instrument, and he can get effects out of photographs that make a lot of film footage seem at once overexcited and dull...
...playwright's skill is relentlessly dogged by his own heavy-handedness, and by John Huston's dull direction. Miss Monroe's final question, for instance, asks, "How do you find your way back in the dark?" Now this question is subtle; it is the very one that Miller is posing for an America which he considers adrift; and he has already shown that he wants this country to follow the star of self-respect. But then, right at the conclusion, he flashes the stars right onto the screen, tucks Marilyn's head onto Gable's shoulder, and closes with...
This scatter-shot anthology includes some hastily-written and unincisive editorials, a copy of an address on America by Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, and two finely-wrought and dull poems reprinted from the Sewanee Review. Gabriel Marcel, whom I admire very much, has a reprinted and astoundingly short discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson...