Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrubs grow in neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Indians of the Andes have chewed the leaves for more than 2,500 years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor...
...example of the kind of innovation Brustein could bring to undergraduate drama, take his basic "no more masterpieces" approach to the "classical" canon, an approach that discourages dull, "definitive" productions, promoting constant re-interpretation and directorial probing into the heart of each play. He has written at great length, most recently in a splendid defense of Henrik Ibsen in this month's issue of Decade magazine, about applying this theory to contemporary social problems. A director, he has written, must try to infuse the "classics" with comtemporary meaning, to apply the general human problems as the playwright articulates them...
...whoever does come, if the recent record is any guide, seniors shouldn't worry about hearing some dull sermon laid down just as they prepare to enter "the company of educated men and women." The seniors have spoken, and they will most likely get the laughs they asked...
...birth in 1841 and finishes with his death in 1910. Queen Victoria, played to near perfection by Annette Crosbie, changes from a willful girl to an arrogant and inflexible old woman. With out altering the known facts, Crosbie manages to give depth to what must have been a rather dull, two-dimensional woman and even succeeds in making her likable. Prince Albert (Robert Hardy) is the one person Victoria seems to love. When he dies of typhoid, young Edward is accused of having worried him to death with his youthful womanizing and exuberant ways...
...narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make dull journals, and who would willingly author a ho-hum diary...