Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thing they uncovered was the vivid and reassuring eye of the original horse, "so different from the dull look of the repaint" as to establish at once that they had made a find. Last week the original head stood entirely revealed. Far livelier and more graceful than the overpainted one, it had no bridle (although the reins were still to be removed...
...Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George Meredith); and a few actually enlarged their subjects...
Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren received praise from the poets' critical claque for Brother to Dragons, but the sad truth was that this long narrative poem about a frontier murder was dull and prosy. In A Hopkins Reader, there was plenty of evidence, though not easy to read, to show why a Victorian Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, is still an influence on poets writing today. And of U.S. poets today, no better sampling came along than New Poems, ably edited by Rolfe Humphries. The price...
...editor of the Labor Party's London Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504), Percy Cudlipp, 48, has had trouble keeping the paper from being a dull, party house organ. Caught between the Trades Union Congress and Labor Party, which owns 49% of the paper, and Odhams Press Ltd., which holds the other 51% of the stock, Editor Cudlipp has battled to make the paper a lively daily while satisfying his political bosses' demands for space for such dull stories as long-winded party speeches. Last week Editor Cudlipp got tired of the delicate balancing act. Barely four days...
Army's own specialists in strategy and logistics, some of the already published volumes are dishwater-dull and studded with enough technical details to paralyze the general reader. A few, e.g., Cross-Channel Attack, Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt, and The Fall of the Philippines, capture the mud and courage of battle with tense honesty...