Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
What this type of angry, incoherent prose will prove is anybody's guess. Thus far it has resulted-in the work of Durrell and Miller-in dismembered passages of isolated brilliance, lit with lurid imagery and standing out sharply above records of life that are often dull and usually obscene. It stems from James Joyce's Ulysses, but represents a type of curdled romanticism foreign to Joyce-more brutal, less artful, pervaded by a sense of hopelessness and despair beside which Joyce at his most pessimistic seems blithe and full of spirit...
From the first flood of applications TIME draws this further condition: letters must be brief, written in advertisement form, and, for the writer's sake, not plain dull...
...turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery...
...blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory. The value of the first trend, substitution of more general exam questions attacking a broad subject from a particular angle, has been recognized by practically every department, even in the most technical sciences. On the other hand, the second trend, the use of essays, papers and short theses in place...