Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's daily schedule of appointments is usually pretty dull: a conveyor belt of officials and politicians who pass through his office at intervals between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and dump their problems and requests on his desk. One day last week President Eisenhower got a welcome surprise when Lynda Widerberg, a pretty blonde in a soft blue organdy dress, walked into his office and announced, "I was going to kiss...
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT was one of the most puzzling painters of the 19th century. His studio pictures could be weak, dull and sickly sweet; his paintings direct from nature were often as pure and clear as a thrush's song. An example of Corot at his best is his Blonde Gasconne (opposite), the public favorite at the Smith College Museum of Art. In this simple picture the pearly atmosphere is conveyed as only Corot could, and the girl seems almost a condensation of the cool sea air. She is an unforgettable presence, melancholy and mysterious as a peasant...
...savage and the civilized man have a long and uneasy road before they reach the haven of friendship. Like Defoe's original work, the movie is a neat mixture of moralizing and adventure, but, fortunately, the moralizing is never pompous or the adventuring ever dull...
...terrible kind of war for which the French were not made-because they have clear intelligence, and like to know for what they are fighting. They are impulsive, and need to have a little glory stirring their flags, a little enthusiasm swelling their hearts . . . But here all is dull, doubtful and enigmatic...
...lesson of the ruling art Could this dull blockhead ever...