Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearily for a life-long job, and many others grope for a summer's employment--which only causes a variety of muddy footsteps in the basement of University Hall. House dances are flitting momentarily across the weekend horizon, glowing like meteors for a brief instant before expiring with a dull thud. Employer and employee, like two antlered moose, have clashed their horns and now stand panting. Countless thousands of multi-syllabled words are gouged out of textbooks and, still squirming, are grafted into theses. Scholarship applications are sorted into neat piles, and a termbill, soon to flutter into every mailbox...
Bold and ingenious was the idea of compressing a week's theatre-going into two nights. But not altogether sound: in slashing two-thirds of what Shakespeare wrote, Welles ripped out much that was dull but more that was vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic...
...Review, which contemporaries considered a far greater achievement than Robinson Crusoe, was largely filled with dull political and economic arguments, but it did introduce the first gossip column, the first society news and first advice to the lovelorn in English-language journalism. Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many a moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less...
...Commissioner, who probably thinks Loretta Young is responsible for the Suez Canal, should not despair so soon. There is a great deal the police can do besides picking on children half their size, here or in Hollywood. And if their powers of observation are too dull to see what is to be done, maybe they should go to a few "Dead End" movies themselves...
...rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding is the script, which brightens what might have been a dull problem drama; and the acting, especially of Miss Sullavan and Miss Bainter, is uniformly good. The whole is an engrossing story of real people, with development of character as well as objective incident to heighten the well-sustained interest...