Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this...
...beat that so comforts and reassures. One-two-three-four. ONE-two-three-four ONE. The beat mimics the repetitions of daily dull lives--mimics them and calls them art. Get up-eat-work-sleep GET-UP and on and on giving our lives a dignity they don't possess. The beat is like the clock they give a kitten when they're taken away his mother, so he won't be scared. Where is the music of live souls, of people who live with the knowledge that no instant repeats? Where is the music of free...
After taking office as the first Negro mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl Stokes disappointed even his most loyal supporters. His first five months produced little but petty errors, squabbles and a deepening frustration that so vibrant a campaigner could be so dull an incumbent. Then came Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, and Stokes, 40, tearfully walked through Cleveland slums, trying to avert the violence that was to inflame 168 other American cities. He succeeded, and that April night seemed to bring the mayor to rousing life...
...their theses postponed, I was up all night typing an overdue anthropology paper. While they were getting money from Daddy, I was hurrying to my Saturday job. While they were uncommitted to a future career, I was unsuccessfully seeking a full-time job. Isn't all this responsibility dull...
...attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...