Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Los Angeles Times launched its new afternoon tabloid, the Mirror, last October, it hit the newsstands with a dull thud. Readers were baffled by its sideways front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
...want to learn something about the continental approach to romance, drop over to the Exeter theatre and see "Intermezzo." This ten year old film stars Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman whose polished performances redeem an otherwise implausible and dull story...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...
...lack of enthusiasm and feeling. It shows Emerson as far more practical, sometimes calculating, and much less steadily conscious of his purpose in life than has been believed. One great discovery concealed or slurred over by previous biographers is that much of Emerson's life was dull. Moreover, Rusk admits that he has been greatly attracted by one aspect of Emerson-his struggle "to keep his little area of personal freedom safe from encroachment." The emphasis is consequently upon his independence, his reserve with family and friends, his ties with and his distance from the members of his congregation...
Rusk goes over the tedium and labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...