Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a month ago, the season seemed dull. With the exception of the Eastern Division of the National League, where St. Louis and Philadelphia were battling for the lead, all was quiet on the first-place front. Then the balance abruptly began to shift...
Beirne was a restless, philosophical leader; he called three strikes against the Bell System in 1947, 1968 and 1971, but acknowledged that automation would dull the cutting edge of his union's major weapon. A member of the executive council of the CIO (later, AFL-CIO) since 1949, Beirne was one of the few labor leaders to support George McGovern's presidential campaign...
Similarly, the attempt to make Paul's western apocalypse seem beautiful fails; it is as dull as the desert sand. Yet Winner depends exclusively on glib celluloid statements to establish points. The Kerseys are in love--because a golden sundown silhouettes them when they embrace...
...serious financial argument is possible only if one believes what F. Skiddy von Stade '37, dean of freshmen, said five years ago--that educated women are simply less useful to society than educated men. "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 versus females at Harvard," von Stade said. "Quite simply, I do not see highly educated women making startling strides in contributing to our society in the foreseeable future. They are not, in my opinion, going to stop getting...
...book at tunes has the stilted air of This Is Your Life, it is still top entertainment for the reader, with scarcely a dull minute and only a minimum of station breaks (i.e., plugs for Cavett). Cavett is no one-shot, gag-Line comedian but a man whose turn of mind brings intelligence and humor to bear on childhood memories and adolescent contretemps (mostly sexual), and produces marvelously generous yet accurate assessments of his rivals (Carson, Paar, et al.) and acknowledged betters (Groucho Marx and Woody Allen). May the book's Nielsen rating be higher than Cavett...