Word: dullness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Millennium. At any rate, the 29th G.O.P. Convention, looking up at its nominee, was not in a mood for character analysis. After a conclave made dull by the swift rout of Nixon's foes and enlivened only briefly by a spat over the vice-presidential nomination, it was time for exultation. One thing that his detractors have never under stood about Nixon is his total identification with the Republican Party and his understanding of it. His acceptance speech was pure Nixon, telling it as the party would like it to be?1968 style...
...desperate dull hours, the networks took capital advantage of their new photographic mobility, straying away from the rostrum some 70% of the air time. Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance ordered his troops to beware of scratching their noses, but no one warned the delegates...
MIAMI BEACH. Aug. 7--"Conventions are always dull," one veteran newspaper reporter said to me Tuesday night as we watched part of a session on TV. "But this is the dullest...
...full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting to the speaker at the rostrum, and then concluding, as Walter Cronkite concluded Tuesday night, that this session was "sometimes dull...
...only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, rapidly turn into "vertical slums." As for planning, while many cities like Philadelphia and Boston have become showplaces, most of them cling to the old pattern of dull city blocks, where even the prestige corporate structures determinedly ignore their neighbors...