Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost glacial calm, Rusk considers diplomacy a slow, dull business-and he is grateful that it is. "Let's not have too much excitement these days," he observes. "It's too damn dangerous." Addressing a group of State Department visitors last week, he counseled: "Reserve judgment to a degree until you dig into the heart of a problem. Glandular reactions are not good enough any more." He is uncharacteristically cutting toward "these third-party amateurs who are so busy trying to mediate the Viet Nam war," mostly without any suspicion that hundreds of existing diplomatic channels have been...
...well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born verbal musician. Among the fictional souvenirs of World War II, mostly heavy, khaki-colored, lugubrious and dull, this is a glittering bit of Faberge loot-a bauble to defeat boredom. It also marks the first creation, though not publication (which was delayed 16 years), of the anti-hero in postwar fiction, the first of the Lucky Jims...
...better or worse, I am a bourgeois economist." Keynes was suspicious of the power of unions, inveighed against the perils of inflation, praised the virtue of profits. "The engine which drives Enterprise," he wrote, "is not Thrift but Profit." He condemned the Marxists as being "illogical and so dull" and saw himself as a doctor of capitalism, which he was convinced could lead mankind to universal plenty within a century. Communists, Marxists and the British Labor Party's radical fringe damned Keynes because he sought to strengthen a system that they wanted to overthrow...
Died. Al Ritz, 64, eldest of the Ritz Brothers who, with Second Brother Jimmy, played straight man to Rubber-faced Harry in 18 movies between 1936 and 1946 (Never a Dull Moment), continued to enliven nightclubs with a blend of lunatic dance and non sequitur patter; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
Maugham cites his own example. He once met a dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it before morning. His wife seemed a drab mediocrity, but she had cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband...