Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When questioned by moderator Louis L. Jaffe, professor of Law, as to labor's failure to arouse workers against the Taft-Hartley Act, Tyler replied that labor had yet to feel the dull impact of the 1947 law. "Taft-Hartley," he explained, "is sort of a time bomb which will only go off in an atmosphere of unemployment...
...Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...
...painting, the artist, and the two women spectators. He allows Hawthorne to speak a long monologue filled with poetry that is at times truly beautiful; yet if it were no for the warm voice and delicate diction of Edward Thommen, so long a speech would have seemed dull. Robert Heavenridge, as Melville, and Martin Halpern, as the artist, are quite good, while Mathida Hills, playing the first woman, perfectly captures the terrified shyness intended by Phelps, and Elinor Fuchs is wonderfully funny as her coarse, insensitive companion...
Denney's satire is a fitting comment on all of the "Four Plays for a Plain Stage." Deliberate obscurity and a false esoterica make the first two seem dull and meaningless. On the other hand, Three Words in No Time and September Lemonade show how well the one-act form can be used...
...well in New Haven. It gets pretty dull when you win 113 meets in a row, and people have been going to fencing matches instead. And so, with the reckless abandon of a tapped junior, the Daily recently came out for an improvement in the Yale swimming situation...