Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clumsy piece of wire, for here the corridor turns in a sharp L. Around the corner, you find yourself blindly stumbling over people's feet, and hear voices whispering. A voice hoarse with age or cold: "From Greifswald you come? Last night?" A woman's voice, dull and flat: "Not much, about 60 marks left." A man's voice, strong with impatience: "How long must we wait? Do they think we are cattle?" The voice of an older man, speaking assurance to himself: "All will be well soon-when we are on the plane." The angry voice...
...listened to plans for Inauguration Day (Jan. 20): the committee expected 750,000 visitors, 30 floats. He rode up to the Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
Bartok composed his one-act, two-singer Bluebeard (one of his three theater works) in 1911. It was not produced until 1918, and then it met with no success. The plot was deadly dull: nothing but Bluebeard and fourth wife Judith walking from one door of the castle's great hall to another, until all its seven doors are unlocked. But neither radio listeners nor Dallas concertgoers (who saw a concert version) had to worry about that. Bluebeard's doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens...
...Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins of Germany, concludes that his father was right all along...
Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...