Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's public seems to accept today's tenors, Italian and otherwise. Pavarotti and Domingo thrill audiences the world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers...
...home, his pioneering drive to reach out to China, his opening of the long road toward strategic arms limitations with the Soviet Union, his peace initiatives in the Middle East, abuses of power, and Spiro Agnew. Through it all, the resilient Nixon sometimes ate up valuable minutes with long, dull answers. But there were also many astute replies, carrying a ring of self-assurance and authority. Declared one technician on the California TV set after a Nixon performance: "If he keeps talking like that, I may vote...
...means; but if you are young stay away until you grow older. The scenery of Alaska is so much grander than anything else of the kind in the world that, once beheld, all other scenery becomes flat and insipid. It is not well to dull one's capacity for such enjoyment by seeing the finest first...
...wealthy family--a radical chic lawyer, with a Warhol silk screen of Mao in the living room, rather than a newspaper magnate--and their newly-converted revolutionary daughter, whose rhetoric makes little sense and at best serves to separate her from her wealthy background, the FBI and a steamy, dull, white-washed country in Latin America that undergoes one internecine revolution after another among the one controlling family that owns all the land. But the superficial aspects of the plot are, as in any good novel, mostly secondary. A Book of Common Prayer, like other Didion works, is concerned with...
There is no way of knowing whether the enthusiastic, dedicated young teacher will continue to be successful after the age of 45. Thus, scholarship must remain the decisive factor, not only because it is intrinsically important but because it offers the most reliable assurance that even dull teachers will continue to have something of value to communicate...