Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized & Dull. In defense and foreign policy there is a similar contrast between the Republican product and the Republican sales pitch. A recent Gallup poll shows that 64% of U.S. voters feel that the defense position of the U.S. is better now than it was under the Truman Administration. The Republican campaign has done little to capitalize on this highly favorable voter conclusion...
...fact that, under Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower, the U.S. is steadily building a more powerful and more efficient defense force. But the steak Charlie Wilson served was cold. Said one member of the World Affairs Council: "It was a well-organized speech." Sighed another: "It certainly was dull too." Rudimentary political considerations would have dictated that Eisenhower, not Wilson, make the defense-budget speech...
Happily for Mr. Bentley, and The Dramatic Event, his reviews do not make the dull reading one would expect from a book of this type. He has a facility for acid criticism and a predilection for commenting on the social scene--two talents which give his work the quality of especially readable essays. While not essential to good dramatic criticism, these talents have been a boon to followers of the New Republic, and they should attract more than a few chance readers to his latest book...
...cablese that makes him sound like a Western Union clerk on the analyst's couch. Morris offers many rewarding moments of major excitement and minor truth. But he deliberately invites comparison with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and beside these great American romantic realists, Morris looks perhaps adult but certainly dull. Where Fitzgerald could turn rotgut into champagne, Morris turns champagne into Alka-Seltzer...
...great lads in a barroom but boobs in the spooning parlor, priests who know the human score but have better sense than to add it up. In The Little Mother, a young girl learns one of the deepest truths about middle-class life: "Respectability, far from being a dull and quiet virtue, was like walking a tightrope." And in The Mad Lomasneys, an older man invites the fury of his girl by denying she knows anything about love. Says O'Connor: "At the age of eighteen to be told that there is anything you don't know about...