Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of elimination points the finger rather squarely at K. Lype O'Dell and Marjorie Lerstrom, who, as Vanya and Yelena, are responsible for holding the play together. But from O'Dell one gets only the sense of a dull, complaining man. One does not find in this Vanya the education with which Astrov credits him, nor the profound melancholy the others are constantly pointing out. His philosophy comes out flat; if there is one scene in the play that is disastrously bad it is his soliloquy early in Act II, where, instead of protest at a wasted life...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author shows as much skill as he did in his best-selling account of the 1960 campaign. But he is hard put to overcome the fact that he is writing about a dull and one-sided election...
...Love. On the back lot at Universal City, Love creates a cardboard Paris and fills it with evidence that 1965 is a dull year abroad...
...Pinter's The Dumb shares the bill with Days in the Loeb's repertory, and I find it to resist making a few between the plays. only two characters, is physically constricted Days takes place in a the Dumb Waiter in a Happy Days oozes philosophy, but it dull. Yet while of Pinter's play are no of profound than . The Dumb Waiter is entertaining...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author shows as much skill as he did in his bestselling account of the 1960 campaign. But he is hard put to overcome the fact that he is writing about a dull, one-sided election...