Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge verbally into a line of critical and popular opinion that has held solidly for twenty years, progressively extolling first the original production and then each of two revivals. Nevertheless, ignoring for the moment whatever else it may be, "Show Boat" is not a great musical. It tells a dull story peopled with dull characters. Never does it generate more than a mild, academic curiosity as to what will happen next, and whatever does happen next invariably justifies the lack of anticipation...
Another development noted was an improvement in the ability of students to read critically and to make allowances for point-of-view ("without which the reporting of events would be dull, if possible...
...what Dartmouth is going to do at Harvard during the game weekend, so he decides that someone goes to Hanover and finds out. But the Editor wants to do it in a subtle way, that will make the Crimsons look cute and maybe make the Dartmouths look pretty dull...
Curtain Up. Backstage, 140 actors, dancers, chorus girls, stagehands and all-purpose worriers went about their work in a state of controlled panic. In the dingy dressing rooms, the perfumed atmosphere was intolerably tense. A sudden gleam came into the dull eyes of 375 backstage spotlights. Almost imperceptibly, the curtain rustled up. On one side of the stage was a brass bed containing a mother & child. On the other side, a mixed chorus in turn-of-the-century costumes began to sing...
...Liphook, England. He invented the most uninspiring political slogan of an era-"inevitability of gradualness"-and gave it to the Fabian Society, the gleam-in-the-eye which fathered the British Labor Party. His late wife Beatrice was coauthor with her husband of dozens of dogged, thorough, worthy, dull books and pamphlets. Their crowning work was the 1,174-page Soviet Communism: a New Civilization, which was the most detailed study of the Soviet Government in English, and which completely missed the point. The-bright-eyed old Webbs in 1935 found that the Soviet Union was "the very opposite...