Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often as I blink my eyes, I expect him to provide some of the excitement this word suggests. In Sligar and Son, author Andy Hoye fires away with enough expletives for five LeRoi Jones one-acters, yet the four-letter word that most aptly describes his play is "dull...
...themselves seemed resigned to whatever came their way Nov. 5. Nixon was determined not only to win, but to win big so that he could govern with a clear mandate. There was probably not even a notion of what he would do should he lose; law would certainly seem dull. Just as bent on victory -and apparently convinced it is in his grasp-Humphrey would no doubt be better prepared psychologically for defeat at this juncture and would work for the next four years to unite the party...
This takes inconceivable effort, since making Shaw dull is rather like making sex dull. Shaw's words sing; this cast singsongs, and a woodpecker on a hollow log would have produced a more tuneful score. Richard Kiley's Caesar has faint, weary traces of Shaw's philosopher-king, but Leslie Uggams is a drowned kitten of the Nile without a hint of incipient regality...
...precisely this kind of pretentious writing that has given the nouveau roman a bad name. Not that Duras need be so dull. She has a flair for describing violent action and an undoubted talent for inventing plots. It is simply that she is too ambitious for her fairly limited gifts...
...There's no pressure on anyone to play on some day he might not want to,"Sione explains, "so boys are likely to think of practices as fun rather than dull requirements...