Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work Undone. The Dewey boys, Tom Jr. and John, also found Owosso dull. They spent most of their time tirelessly playing cards (pinochle and poker) with New York State Troopers Ed Galvin and Joe Micklas. Tom Dewey was hard put to find anything else for them...
Texas Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Plains) deplored the dull way his state's history was taught in the Texas public schools; pupils learned the lessons dutifully and soon forgot them. Professor Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, was convinced that children can not only learn to like history; they can help to write it. Seven years ago he organized a Junior State Historical Association, to persuade high-school kids to discover history for themselves and to write up what they found just as professional historians...
There is no really had acting in the movie: it's all standard, mass-produced, with always the right gesture or tone of voice for the right emotion, all as dull as the day-before-yesterday's newspaper. Maureen O'Hara is as bosomy an example of pretty American girlhood as one could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human...
Wilde takes the girl away from her dull, suave fiance, and marries her on a boat going to the Argentine. But only half an hour of the show has passed, and it is obvious that something is going to break up the happy marriage. What, if not the hero's bad ways and the "gay set"-he hangs around with? There are the usual ominous portents from the beginning, the usual "old friend" with fine, curving lips, named Kitty, and the usual unsociological statement, which goes something like, "I'm bad. You can't change me." She leaves him, while...
...Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly fail to call up visions...