Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister did little better at the Conservative kickoff: speaking by closed-circuit television to twelve provincial Tory rallies across the country, he managed to get off one telling line in an otherwise notably dull speech. Arguing that Labor's promises-expand nationalization of industry, increase export incentives and educational opportunity, create four new ministries-would cost too much, Sir Alec scoffingly dubbed the Labor Party manifesto "a menu without a price list...
Crucial Transformation. The council's most famous innovation is a comprehensive new math curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade that is being taught this fall to 5,000,000 students in 50 states. Its newest change is perhaps its most crucial: transforming social studies from a dull memorization of unrelated facts, which has long been the scandal of grade-school education, to a lively, integrated understanding of the economic, political and historical crosscurrents that comprise U.S. democracy...
...must be some mistake-this can't be a good movie. It was produced by Ross Hunter, a man who makes bad movies (Magnificent Obsession, Imitation of Life) on principle-the principle that most moviegoers are housewives and most housewives don't care if the story is dull so long as the furniture is interesting. What's more, the picture stars Sandra Dee, a young woman who looks like everything the sociologists say is wrong with American teen-agers and acts as though she can't wait to get the picture over with and count...
...Democratic National Convention, the networks achieved the impossible. In their frenetic scramble to make the trivial significant and the significant momentous, they succeeded in making the convention seem even duller than dull reality. It was no wonder that, on the climactic night of the nominations, nearly half of all New York City viewers were glued to independent stations offering such attractions as a rerun of an Untouchables episode, a rerun of a Marilyn Monroe documentary, and a rerun of a movie space opera called The Brain from Planet Arous...
...Estate was plainly planned as a Big Novel. But its characters, plot, subplots and messages are all lightweights. In a sort of split-level Manhattan setting, the author contrives to make a number of cherished American goals-including sex, booze, wealth, social position, world travel and Broadway fame-sound dull and unprofitable. Glibly cynical, he views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk-ups: should an Artist give up his Integrity for Commercial Success...