Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toscanini telecasts, with their remarkable, moving close-ups of the maestro and the orchestra, were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
Students' Choice. He drew overflow audiences at Dayton and Hamilton, was vociferously cheered by 3,500 Miami University students who had just held a mock convention, in which he was nominated for President. By week's end he had made Taft's campaign seem dull and almost apathetic...
...this week. Sabartés evidently thinks that every detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...
...minds of men are controlled only by some form of moral discipline. . . Discipline [is] the end, not the means of education ... We are all implicated in the decadence of our civilization, and it is only to the extent that our dull indifference is fused to a white heat of moral indignation and . . . activity that the future can have any promise of greatness . . . The person is the only ground in which a cultural renaissance can take place...
...case history, Ellen's story is plausibly chronicled and diagnosed. Omitting no details of the disease or minutiae of the therapy, The Cup not only runneth o'er but is several times refilled. Sensational in spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble is that Playwright Paul knows what he is writing about but not how to write about it. His touch is coarse, his method tedious, his tone didactic; the play becomes a kind of Pilgrim's Progress of drink...