Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business. Evie Gordon makes the rounds of up to two dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will...
...Second Tree from the Corner, a sampling of his New Yorker pieces, is "a dog's breakfast," according to White-short stories, parodies, poems, essays, table talk-some of it funny, some of it scary, almost none of it dull...
...John Cabell Breckinridge (1857-61) complained that President James Buchanan consulted him only once-and that was on the wording of a Thanksgiving proclamation. But if he found the vice presidency dull, the rest of his life was not. He ran for President against Lincoln, splitting the Democratic vote and assuring the defeat of Stephen Douglas, later became a combat major general in the Confederacy, and then its Secretary of War. He refused to surrender, fled to Cuba, stole a ship, became a pirate, moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored...
...Conner family of the Midwest city of Green Prairie represent the new Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect...
...show's tour de force, contrasts markedly with a certain indecisive quality which harms some of his earlier pictures. This weakness is most evident in an apparent overworking of certain parts of some other portraits--especially in the region of the eyes. The result is an effect of dull lifelessness, which, although effective in the Portrait of Helene Swindells, is generally disturbing...