Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...
...continue to follow the general policies set down by Khrushchev, they have replaced the lush disorder and impulsiveness of his personalized government with more deliberate, rational procedures. They move only after elaborate consultations, try to be not only secretive but faceless as well, and generally appear cautious, bureaucratic and dull...
...campaign that seems to accompany him wherever he goes. (Dickey has had the full Life magazine treatment, with photographs of him in his various uniforms.) More to the point, his critics deplore the occasional unrevised look of his poems--and certainly he can be, at times, both prolix and dull. Some would call him tasteless, but after all, tastes differ...
Undefeated freshman ace Dave Pottetti held off a late challenge from teammate Tom Spengler to lead the Yardlings to an upset win in their G.B.C.'s Harvard won 30-43 over a Northeastern outfit which beat them in a dull meet several weeks...
...cluk your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style,you known; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...