Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER LUNCH I went outside. With the use of tranquilizers many wards have been unlocked and the patients are free to leave during the day. Hardly any do. I walked over the grounds and brooded over my patienthood. Already the enormous dull routine of back ward life was getting to me. Already I was beginning to feel dead. And lonely, terribly lonely...
This is a shame: the catalogue deserves better. Untold gems of intellectual satisfaction await those few undergraduates who each year devote hours to finding intriguing and pleasurable course offerings apart from the usual dull run. When these diligent readers complete their perusal of the catalogue, they can anticipate an exhilarating year staking out a claim on those fields of academic endeavor which lesser spirits unwittingly pass by. To distribute this satisfaction more equitably, we here present a collection of this year's catalogue's finest moments...
...Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases...
...about as badly as they had in the old Polo Grounds, losing 109 games and winding up, as expected, in last place. But they were slowly undergoing a transformation?from beguiling buffoonery to mundane mediocrity. Casey was forced to retire in 1965 with a fractured hip, and things were dull without him standing on the dugout steps, crossing two fingers on each hand and shouting "Whommy! Whommy! Whommy!" at opposing players. His lackluster successor, Wes Westrum, guided the Mets past the Cubs to their first ninth-place finish. They recorded another first in 1966: they lost fewer than 100 games...
...gray overcast for which Germany's Ruhr Valley is noted. Becher's concern with the weather is not a matter of whim. He is a photographer, his subject the collieries, mills, water towers and other rugged structures of Europe's coal and steel industries. Only a dull diffused light, he has found, can properly set off the austere, utilitarian designs produced by the Industrial Revolution long before Bauhaus theoreticians made a cult of functionalism...