Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at me from the depths of the earth, tiller of fields, weaver, reticent shepherd . . . jeweler with crushed fingers . . . say to me: here I was scourged because a gem was dull or because the earth failed to give up in time its tithe of corn or stone. Point out to me the rock on which you stumbled, the wood they used to crucify your body...
True Amalgam. An evening at City Opera does not alway glitter with great singing stars, although in Bass Norman Treigland and Soprano Sills the company possesses two of the finest voices in the world. But Rudel's shows are rarely dull. Because he believes that "open should be a true amalgam of the visual and musical," he was steering City Opera toward total theater long before the term became fashionable. He hired such experienced directors as Frank Corsaro and Tito Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became...
...sets out to even the balance. To look at Dorothy and Lou (A. Larry Haines) you'd swear they were a happily married couple (though perhaps a little dull) secure in the comfort of their sleakly cozy, big suburban home. Well then, look again. It's their twenty-fifth anniversary (which Dorothy superstitiously refuses to celebrate) and when questioned on his fidelity Lou suddenly admits to having in the past had two affairs. Two! I've also had two, Dorothy bluffs (or does she?). And the two return to each other's arms only by dropping the issue altogether...
...them. For example: 'The first thing I remember is sitting in a pram at the top of a hill with a dead dog lying at my feet." This is the kind of thing Greene remembers and chooses to relate. The very matter-of-factness of its horror changes a dull life into one full of terror and hidden meaning...
Forster is no mere apologist for homosexuality, thus Maurice agonizes. But there is something of redemption in the agony. Maurice, suffering, is no longer the dull adolescent, prisoner of his class and social consciousness. His moral separation turns him to introspection, and the movement of the novel becomes for Maurice (and, one presumes, for Forster) a self-examination of the implications of homosexuality--the sterility, the social exile, the ethical renunciation...