Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first prize went to thin-faced Zoltan Sepeshy, who at 49 is one of the world's best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...
...translation by George S. Counts and Nucia P. Lodge from an official Soviet text on teacher training-a sort of catechism of Communist right & wrong for Soviet teachers. It is as soggily written as books on pedagogy are apt to be under any form of government, but behind the dull words is a horrifying picture of what young Russians are being brought up to believe...
...fabulous assortment of hokum, men have tried to describe the mystery and glamour surrounding circus life. But most attempts at painting the lives and loves of an India Rubber Man or drawing the character behind a barker's chant have failed miserably. Circus people became either ridiculous or dull under the pens of fascinated, but insensitive authors. "Gus the Great" is no unhappy commentary by someone outside the realm. Mr. Duncan treats his subject with great dignity and honest realism and fails only through his inability to unite the complex threads of his story...
...testing," Audience Research will use the Hopkins Televote Machine, a Rube Goldbergian contrivance originally designed to chart audience reaction to movies (TIME, July 22, 1946). By turning a rheostat, hand-picked audiences indicate their degree of amusement from "very dull" to "like very much." Promising movies have a high "Want-to-See." Radio shows will get a "Want-to-Hear" rating...
...Book-of-the-Month Club advertises meritorious and meretricious books in the same loud tone of voice. To the club's 900,000 members, judgments like "powerful," "moving," "noble," "haunting" must by now have the same dull ring as "colossal" has for moviegoers. When the Mountain Fell, the club's co-choice for October, is promoted with all these words. But for the first time in many a month, they are not entirely irrelevant...