Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guestward Ho! (ABC), a series based on a book by Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame) and Barbara Hooton, follows a New York family to New Mexico, where they open a dude ranch. The first episode was as dull as the wrinkled eyelid...
Otherwise, The Diplomacy of Economic Development is much like one would expect it to be from the last sentence: "It is rare in international affairs that doing the obvious makes so much sense." A good deal of Black says is obvious; most of it, fact, is pretty dull, an extraordinary accomplishment considering the excitement that men working in field seem to generate around Almost all of it, however, is sensible indeed; this I must however much I wish he could have stuck his neck out a little further a not have been so unassuming. H book will not make anybody...
...pink skull fringed with white, his face now frozen as a death mask, now galvanized into full-muscled motion. Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Albania's Mehmet Shehu, Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Symbolically, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, his frosty-white hair matted...
...deeply committed Harvard professor has added spice to a dull presidential campaign. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., professor of History, has just published a short book attempting to dispel the notion that Nixon and Kennedy are "the Gold Dust Twins of American Politics...
...discussion of the political bewilderment of students. Much nonsense has been written recently about student apathy--as if we knew what was going on, had a conceptual framework to deal with it, perhaps even knew what we wanted, and yet were simply too timid or lazy or busy or dull to do anything about it. None of these assumptions is true. As the Tocsin prospectus says, we are bewildered because we lack "a set of ideas which seem adequate to challenge prevailing assumptions supporting organization...