Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also a startling contrast between what commentators say about the campaign style of Illinois' Senator-elect and the way voters respond to it. One sympathetic writer described Stevenson's speechmaking as "almost embarrassingly dull." A Chicago political editor called it dead. Personal and political intimates, recalling the father's grace, spontaneity and wit, find a range of positive adjectives for the son that begins with "deliberate" and ends with "concerned...
...David K. Smith. We are dismayed at the views he expressed, but we are not surprised. We have been trying to convince the Harvard community that a significant portion of the Harvard Administration shares Dean von Stade's view of educated women. That is to say, that we are "dull" and incapable of significant contributions to scholarship or to society, and that motherhood and intellectual functioning are mutually exclusive. On the basis of these beliefs the administration seems to conclude that Harvard should continue to maintain discriminatory practices against women. It is these very practices which have in the past...
...explained his rules for moviemaking: "When the scene is exciting, put the camera in cement. When the scene is dull, spin the camera around like a whip." Brooks would not let anyone take him seriously in any of the poses the situation demanded he assume...
...supposed to be intellectuals, in search of productive lives, and to be women, in search of our identity through a man and his children. But von Stade offers us a false analysis of the causes of this phenomenon. We do not all become "bright, well-educated, relatively dull housewives" out of biological necessity, but because of a society-and a University-that forces us to conform to the traditional female role...
...When I see the bright, well-educated, but relatively dull housewives who attended the 'Seven Sisters,' I honestly shudder at the thought of changing the balance of males vs females at Harvard," he said in the letter...