Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only hope for a better-then-dull contest would seem to be some uncharacteristically daring tactics by the Cornell team. The Redmen may figure from last week's Columbia score that the Crimson are vulnerable this year...
Kittens & Rabbits. Salinger's showing came as a bit of a shock to those who remembered him as a White House press secretary who could always be counted on to enliven dull news days in the Kennedy years. Those were the days when Pierre delivered solemn pronouncements on little Caroline's Tom Kitten, or offered brisk communiqués about a trumpet-playing rabbit, or exhibited a grand disdain for the 50-mile hikes so highly recommended by the Kennedys. Considering his background, it is hard for many Californians to remember that Pierre is now a genuine...
...almost irreversible lead for Johnson--which makes the Presidential contest dull--has turned originally marginal questions into the exciting issues of the campaign, Of these issues the chief fear in Cambridge--one suspects this is also true in other intellectual communities--has turned out, ironically, to be the fear of total victory...
...INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors is as handsome-and as lifeless-as model rooms in department stores...
...have become principally committed to reproducing itself. Instead of educating a broad elite that might fill the top ranks of business, government, law, and medicine, Harvard may be producing simply an army of Ph. D.'s These men may do useful work, but much of it will be dull, competant, safe academic mediocrity...