Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that way himself. Had he sacrificed too much in reaching his own robust harmony? Had he become too dull a dog? For Brown's harmony had not arrived in a minute. People saw that fat contented man, rested on his steady strength, and thought he had never known their conflicts. They were blind. He was utterly tolerant, just because he had known the frets that drove...
...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
Brightening the Dull. Through the densest economic thicket Sylvia blazes a simple trail. "You wouldn't by any chance have $460 tucked away in your pocketbook or wallet or lying around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...
...nothing, beats common soap. This little white lie (in private fact, she still dabs on assorted costly ointments, pays 75? a cake for Elizabeth Arden soap) had its purpose. It was Sylvia's way of backing into a survey of the billion-dollar cosmetic industry so stuporously dull that few readers would have bothered to read...
...Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...