Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing you about your article on Walt Disney's The Fighting Prince of Donegal [Dec. 2]. This article said that for children it's supposed to be dull. I think the movie was wonderful. It was my favorite movie, same with my sisters. I'd love to see it again. It's not a dull stew! My sisters are Julie, 7, and Diane...
Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become ossified. This season, the program has shucked its shawl and gone...
They roared with delight as the hometown boys avenged Harvard's 19-13 victory last year, and didn't seem to mind a dull, slow meet...
...students' chief beef has been that lectures in the first two years of Med School are long, fact-packed, and dull. Since the courses are all prescribed, there are more than 125 students in each, and some students complain there is little opportunity for individual attention from professors...