Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of the theater to appear too fat to play Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak bag of guts." In his compilation of five of the Bard's plays, some Wellesian genius flickers but does not burn brightly enough to illuminate the long dull stretches...
Well, face it: 1763 was a very dull year anyway. It hardly holds a candle to 1924, for example. That's when insecticide was introduced; Juan Gris lectured at the Sorbonne; Bloch wrote his piano quintet; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Puccini, Turandot; Schoenberg, Erwartung; Forster, A Passage to India; Galsworthy, The White Monkey; Shaw, St. Joan; Mann, The Magic Mountain. It was also the year that Woodrow Wilson and Lenin died, that Hitler got out of prison, Coolidge was elected President, China, Britain and France recognized the U.S.S.R., Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as everyone no doubt...
FALSTAFF. Actor Orson Welles has caught more of the dark than the light side of Shakespeare's pun-prone, fun-filled roisterer, and Director Welles's amalgam of five of the historical plays is often stonily dull, despite some sparks of genius...
Whatever has been making Lampy a dull boy, Lampy only knows. Many of the articles have been precious, sweet little nothings-lots of gilt and no lily. Things frilly and roccoco are fine, but they must be done with infinite care. At the same time, any piece that showed merit has appeared at least 13 times in the last 12 months. Now that the 'Poon is in the chips, it can certainly afford to have the printer make up some new plates...
...pornography is indeed alarming, but its suppression raises more difficult problems. The wisest men have been unable to draw a sure line between what is harmful and what is merely realistic or daring in literature. Moreover, freer access at least allows the reading public to discover just how dull pornography really is, while suppression tends to make it even more titillating. Victorian England, for example, seems to have been as sexually depraved as any era in history-and its pornography flourished underground. Lady Snow is refreshing and courageous in speaking out, unfashionably, against the philosophy of anything-goes...