Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Purcell pieces have a mysterious air to them and yet are curiously dull. The playing, by various members of the string sections, was more spirited than usual for these works. Simpson's cello playing was especially sensitive and powerful, coaxing a wonderful resonance from the instrument. When the fantasias are done by viols, the blend of sound can be excruciatingly monotonous. At the same time, there are advantages to original instruments: a viola da gamba's tuning is different from a cello's and the notes it plays on open strings can change the shading of tonality greatly...
Which makes him a rather dull fellow to be the protagonist of a novel. Accordingly, the author, a veteran financial reporter who now writes the New York Times daily stock market reports, has also written into his story a kind of primer on mutual-fund management. Sample advice: "Buy the stocks of dominant companies in small but growing industries with a low profile." Vartan also offers a collection of anecdotes about bulls and bears of the past, which his characters recount with the fervor of Hot Stove League fanatics swapping memories about Willie Mays' catches or Curt Flood...
...Skiddy Von Stade, dean of Freshmen, preferred to attack the problem more bluntly: "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 a letter to a Radcliffe admissions officer. "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 married and: or have children. They will fail in their present role as women...
...beats them at their game by living out his fantasies in fact. But this Fritz is enveloped with his animator's love (he's even cuter facially than the original). Whenever he falls, he just picks himself up and starts all over again. Watching his animal erection gets dull and there's no tension to the drama...
...well in their too-brief appearances. It is a wonder that so many fine voices would be willing to devote so many fine voices would be willing to devote so much time to such tiny parts. The greatest disappointment of the opera was the sets. Most ranged from dull to ugly. Surely something more can be done than simply using two screens for a backdrop. The best staging was of the Commendatore's return and the Don's descent into hell. Costuming was colorful and functional, but could not offset the drab backgrounds...