Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television, too, plays an important part in the future world, but with certain improvements. It is interplanetary, in full color, and does not employ any cameras. Called tridco, it is one of the chief entertainments on the future earth. "They might be on this dull old planet for years. . . . It was much pleasanter to doze in the rays of Jupiter and dream of home. Leatrice missed the tridi, the plays, the bright talk and the glitter, the dances and the weekends in New York...
...Should Happen to You is pleasant entertainment though there are some dull stretches. Garson Kanin has proven that given Judy Holliday he can create a funny role. And Miss Holliday, with her vacant stare, indicates that gentlemen prefer blondes because some of them are pretty hilarious...
...Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps two or three-and then the yellow seemed to fade away. It left a dull red, like a piece of iron cooling in the air. The blast came about five minutes later [with] the sound of many thunders rolled into one. Next we saw a pyramid-shaped cloud rising, and the sky began to cloud over most curiously. The thought of pikadon flashed through...
...these testy quirks Parson Dodgson added a formidable string of prejudices, e.g., against ill-natured satire, preaching sermons, "bandying small talk with dull people," "jesting and flippancy on sacred topics," negligence on the part of college servants. He wrote dozens of indignant letters to the newspapers-once, at least, under the surprising pseudonym of "Dynamite." A staunch Tory, he liked nothing better than to lie awake making corrosive anagrams on the detested name of Liberal William Ewart Gladstone, e.g., "Wild agitator! Means well...
...wonder is that, with so much to dislike. Dodgson had any room left for pleasure. Yet his Diaries, now published for the first time, show that when Dodgson was not sunk deep in indignation, he was full of buoyant zest. If his Diaries make dull reading, it is partly because the author of the Diaries is not "Lewis Carroll" or even "dynamite." He is a shy professor who talked with a stammer and had an honest heart and a love of anonymity. About this man the Diaries are a mine of information...