Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year my grandmother had written to us that Mrs. Aslett was leaving: "She'll be sixty-five in December and she wants to retire on her State pension. What we shall do then I've not decided. Funny old thing. I expect she'll find life quite dull! She's already told me she'd still like to come in once or twice a week anyway, but no more, because then she should have to forfeit part of the pension...
Though big papers on both coasts and in the Midwest have been moving at varying speeds toward innovation, the flight from the frivolous or the merely dull has hardly begun on other papers. Press critics argue that many papers still regard women's coverage primarily as a lure for food and fashion advertising. As Charlotte Curtis points out: "Most pages developed because they were good for advertisers, not for readers...
...history of discrimination and denigration. Joanna Russ, an English instructor at Cornell, is trying to change the rules whereby, as she recalls her own education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor...
...rest of the weekend was, by comparison, dull. The Harvard swimming team, returning to Yale for the second time in less than a week, didn't seem to mind the encore. The team had a very rewarding three days, setting 11 new school records and tieing one other, in a fine conclusion to a strong 6-3 season...
...production veers between these two poles. Some scenes, like the tea party at Celimene's house, are brilliantly timed and break up the house. The orgy of mutual sighing and foppish introduction at the beginning of this scene is particularly effective. But, almost every actor has his moments of dull delivery. George Patterson, playing Alceste, says his lines in the most professional manner, but particularly during his extended harangues he does not display a wide enough range of emotion to keep them from being flat and rhetorical. Sarah Hunter, as Celimene, and John Daley as Alceste's friend Philinte have...