Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of the nation are always on New York City, be it for entertainment, stock quotations, fashions, or UN diplomacy. This year, national curiosity is even greater. In a year that is politically dull, New York City is the battleground of an election significant enough to have reverberations in national politics clear through to the 1956 Presidential conventions. Because of this, and especially because over a thousand members of this academic community are native to metropolitan New York, it is hardly meddling for this column to endorse a candidate for mayor of New York City...
...language departments insist upon sending their gentlest and least experienced members to face the unfeeling recalcitrance of the requirement class? And why, in some cases, do these teachers freely admit to their classes that, after all, this is only a requirement course and will probably be very dull for both teacher and student? After such a beginning it certainly will...
...decided last summer. No more demerits for cutting drill or for sloppy shoes. The next time the commanding officer shook his head in disgust, muttering about the shame of being assigned to teach Harvard men the art of war, it wouldn't be on account of Vag's dull brass or stubbly chin. If you're going to do something, do it right, Vag reasoned...
...only outstanding feature of an otherwise dull game was quarterback Brophy's passing. Brophy connected on eight of 11 tosses to ends Bell and Jim Wade. Halfbacks Boies and Ron Peyton also turned in some fine end runs, Peyton several of over 20 yards...
...looked as if the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company had got off on the wrong toe. For more than two weeks, the company, on its third visit to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 21), staged some familiar oldtimers, but its new numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...