Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recognitions, by William Gaddis, gave U.S. 20th century values a long (956 pages) flaying, went remorselessly after Bohemian phonies, savagely attacked the spiritual and moral bankruptcy Gaddis' tortured hero found everywhere. Alternatingly brilliant and dull, it was a virtuoso performance for a first novelist. Some critics uneasily and unjustly ignored...
Despite fears that the long trek would dull the team's physical edge, already considerably dulled since the season's end, trainer "Pooch" Donovan evolved a highly successful conditioning system...
...inherits a fortune and finds himself better off without it is getting to be pretty stale plot material. It would take a sadistic pedant to insist that Chevalier's beggar changes character a little as he changes financial position, or to say that Ma Pomme contains several genuinely dull scenes. Such comments would be un-seasonal carpings, however, and their originators would richly deserve to choke on their fruit cake...
...There is greater temptation to take in only the Cum Laude and the Magna Cum Laude applicants," said Dean Elder, "but this is the sure way of getting one third of your students to be dull and uninteresting...
...Chicago publishing house that operates in the old tradition of the personal publisher. Regnery's personal publisher is its 43-year-old president, Henry Regnery, a slight, intense man, whose interests and whims in religion, philosophy, education, poetry and politics have produced a varied, provocative, often infuriating and rarely dull catalogue of Regnery books...