Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
...sitting, the white-haired Prime Minister is in his front-row seat every day, toying with his heavy horn-rimmed glasses or fingering his bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures...
...long day of rounds and "office hours, he dozes over the medical journals which are supposed to keep him up to date on his profession. Even the widely read (circ. 130,000) Journal of the American-Medical Association is printed in forbiddingly long columns and crammed with purposefully dull medical jargon, often in small type. Its illustrations are hard-to-read charts or muddy photographs...
...Page One box, Managing Editor Parham asked readers what they thought of the experiment. By last week the votes were 10 to i against the new look. Most readers found the headlineless paper dull, couldn't tell big stories from little ones. Complained one subscriber: "You have to read this paper to find out what...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...