Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 14, at Madison Square Garden. Not since 1964 have all factions of the party been so purposefully unified. The New York City convention promises all the controversy of a riverside baptism in south Georgia. But as Party Chairman Robert Strauss says serenely, "It can't get too dull for me. I've tried it the other way, and I like this a lot better...
...that I've seen the city, I'm eager for the convention to begin. There should not be too many dull moments since there will be 7,000 telephones, 13,700 miles of wire, 30,000 hot dogs and one ton of confetti. We'll all be littered with glory. I figure that New York is just like politics: you take the good with the bad and make the best of it. I'm no worse off for visiting New York, and neither is Jimmy Carter...
...must love this American view of learning as the tool by which man transforms himself. We Americans believe that everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. There is something admirable about this, yet nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most...
...meandered from Charles Town, South Carolina, to Jacksonburg, Florida, and back to Savannah, Georgia, with a number of exploratory side trips in between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure...
...drink solely would be pretty dull, even for the summer. There are, short of visiting Maine or Western Mass., closer range methods of rural escape, fortunately. This one will kill you, but Mt. Auburn cemetery in West Cambridge, near Coolidge Hill, is simply beautiful, with a great view of Boston. You'll know that Nathaniel Hawthorne would have been proud of your ability to confront the forces of darkness. Harvard happens to own another close-to-home retreat, the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain (Boston...