Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration of honor in Mr. Chester's Procrustean bad. Having been present at the June elections in 1963, '64, and '65, I can vouch that the great majority of these apparent reversals favored a heterogeneity of interests, favored signs of intellectual flare and excitement, over that massive but dull competence which gets its own reward in grades, grades, and more grades...
...Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" in droning, sullen voices that might be coming from the far side of the grave. "You are about to begin a great adventure, a trip out of your mind," Leary promises. What the listener is really about to begin is a dull record, with little to recommend it beyond a beautifully executed jacket drawing...
...York Film Festival last week opened the fourth annual session of the most prestigious U.S. cinema congress. In a way, the pebble ricocheted. Too many of the far-out films shown at this year's festival tried hard to be difficult but just turned out dull. Too many others were bad jobs by good directors (Bunuel, Bresson, Godard, Torre Nilsson, Varda). Though the sponsors had doggedly previewed 400 films, their efforts failed to turn up enough hits to fill out the festival's fortnight...
Talking to reporters in Boston, Comedian Jerry Lewis was sounding jeremiads as the new season got underway. "I have no desire to get back into TV," he said. "It's dull. It's canned. It's tasteless. It's been swallowed up by Madison Avenue. Right after the dinner hour, we hear all about underarm deodorants, bad breath, dentures. It's disgusting. There is an easy way to make it on TV-you learn their ten commandments, which start with Thou shalt kill,' 'Thou shalt lie,' 'Thou shalt be a cutthroat...
...imaginary but typical stocks. Other Abt games are Adman, Automation and one meant to give businessmen a better knowledge of a union's viewpoint by making them play labor negotiators in bargaining sessions. A few company managers have even asked Abt for games that would constructively enliven dull directors' meetings...