Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dashing back to the White House to huddle with Johnson and Senate leaders about legislative plans and programs. Next, Humphrey was off to the Hill to preside over the opening of the day's Senate session ("You keep hearing people say that presiding over the Senate is a dull job. Why, I enjoy that"), then to speak to a meeting of students, next to the Statler Hilton to address a luncheon of the Advertising Federation of America, back to his office for an afternoon of paper work, and finally into bib and tucker for the White House dinner...
...your mind it won't hold your interest. The photography is skillful but never stunning. The leads hardly seem to be acting at all. In short, the film is so underplayed that it's easy to miss what it's doing, and to classify it as sensitive, restrained, and dull...
...determination to keep her son Benjamin out of school, she embarks on two frantic years of hysterical defiance and evasion, finally breaks with her shadowy husband and goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...
...much of a good thing makes Jack a dull, ulcer-ridden boy. After three weeks of concentrated intellectuality exams begin to seem anticlimatic. Dining halls fill up instantly at 12:00 and 5:30 with studiers looking for lowgrade oral satisfactions to break the tedium. In the spring escapists can lounge along the Charles; in January the only alternatives are to check into the Brattle or turn to gin, either dealt or sipped. If the University wants to indulge us, it ought to cut a week out of reading and exam periods and add it to intersession, when the relaxing...
Sometimes I get the feeling that life at Harvard is a dull three-cornered routine: classes, meals, library. But then I stumble on an issue of, for example, the Record American. HARVARD stands tall in the headlines. "Harvard," I reflect with a quick thrill of self-recognition. Harvard/5000 equals...