Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead on James K. Polk, a President who was neither articulate nor imaginative but rather, in Frankfurter's view, a "bookkeeper" and "a dull man." Said Frankfurter: "He wrote a reliable diary...
...catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
...hats or children slurping ice cream, the show still is almost as delightful as Godfrey's guffaws would suggest. So far. benign Big Brother Funt has not run out of situations to exploit, although only 10% of his film footage ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal a kind of frightening sadism in people. School children ask us to trap their teachers in undignified or compromising situations. Little businessmen plead with us to capture the off-the-record attitudes...
...GRAPES OF PARADISE, by H. E. Bates (239 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.75), recalls the fact that a good storyteller will draw a face that at first seems dull, then beguile his readers with the history of its lines. Author Bates (The Darling Buds of May) draws such faces in this collection of four novellas, but then spins stories that merely confirm the first impression. It is a little hard to tell why -the prose is reeled off smoothly enough, the characters are credible and their involvements follow sound, conservative lines...
...program. In fact, before Slack was interested he had to be convinced that each boy "had seldom or never been able to hold a job, had an extensive court record, had been in correctional institutions, was unable to save and plan purchases, was convinced that work was for dull people, was fearful that he could not hold a job if he really tried, and was extremely resistant to even the idea of treatment...