Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of Michelangelo. The resulting commemorative volume, casually displayed on anyone's espresso table, is guaranteed to take the prize this summer-though perhaps only for price ($125) and awkwardness (14 in. by 11 in. by 3 in., weighing 11 Ibs.). The text is learned, dull and clumsily translated. What almost justifies the outrageous price is the color plates, which display every surviving work that Michelangelo painted, including each panel and major figure in his ceiling frescoes and Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel. The reproduction is generally good, though a trifle hard-edged; the color, for the most...
...words rather than individual letters or syllables-is discredited in the U.S.; 30 years of trying it produced two generations of bad spellers and etymological ninnies. But going back to pure phonics does not answer the original objection that learning English's brain-busting disparities of spelling is dull and slow. In Washington, before a class of 29 illiterate adults and teenagers, a teacher named Caleb Gattegno demonstrated a speedy means of teaching reading by an ingenious system of color-coding sounds...
THIS business is like opium-once it's in your blood, everything else is dull," muses Paramount Pictures Executive George Weltner. The habit has proved profitable for him: last week, at 62, he was promoted from executive v.p. to president. In something of a youth movement, he replaces Barney Balaban, who at 76 becomes chairman; Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor, 91, was named chairman emeritus. Aging Paramount lost $2,800,000 in 1962 when several films were boxoffice flops. Last year it was back in the black, and first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost...
...just one of those silly things," says New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you doing?' and he'd come around. Gaylord Nelson is the smartest. He waits till he sees a hand going into the box, then he'll come over. Mike Mansfield comes around a lot too. The other day, I accused George Smothers of stealing. He said, 'Not only that...
Monopolies tend to dull with age, and sporting monopolies are hardly sport at all. The Yankees, for all their skills, team" are with the now fans. New But York's there is "second one ancient monopoly that only grows more exciting with the years. That is the U.S. hold on the America's Cup - symbol of international supremacy in yachting. By the end of this summer, a doughty group of British yachtsmen will have spent close to $600,000 in an attempt to remove the ungainly, Victorian cup from its accustomed place of honor in the New York...