Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graubard's book review is long, dull, and un-illuminating; Mr. Saperstein's is short and provocative. The scholarly articles--one on Ethiopian Judaism, the other concerning early Jewish views of the philosophy of music--are best left to the scholars...
...Danger: Habituation. How perilous is pot? Medical authorities agree that it is not biochemically addictive, that it does not induce the physiological craving or withdrawal symptoms of such drugs as heroin or cocaine. It affects the user's judgment, and if used daily, will dull a student's initiative and drive, but on the whole, "marijuana is probably less dangerous than alcohol," insists Rand Corp.'s drug expert William McGlothlin. "The dangers have been grossly overrated and the legal penalties are far too severe...
...Ricardo Wilson-John Youngs match at 175 pounds produced a dull, but very professional exhibition. Quincy House's Youngs, wary of Wilson's counter-punching skill, changed his normally aggressive style in an effort to take the lead...
...automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out "an adventure-minded man. Most of his intellectual powers must go toward the discipline of accepting his dull, dank existence without questioning, without wondering, without upsetting the influence of ambition. To live, one's ambition must die." The "wretched tasks" and discrimination of the "pre-automation" age are, according to Asbell, destined to wither away with the help of the state and a concerned public...
...Collection has some fine portraits as well as a flood of gossipy and sometimes penetrating anecdotes. Here is tough-minded Amy Lowell, smoking the cigars that shocked Boston in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Amy wrote in her diary the frank confession, "I am fat, ugly, inconspicuous and dull: to say nothing of a very bad temper." As an adult, she intermittently feared revolution and would declaim at dinner...