Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest groups, and if the press reports them, such pronouncements usually wind up in puny paragraphs between the obituaries and the recipes. Above all, candidates give short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy's dilemmas, that only one issue per campaign, or two or three at most, can grab and hold the public...
...Republican National Convention, decided Russell Baker of the New York Times, had been "planned weeks in advance by six bores and a sadist." How else would you explain, asked Baker, such yawn-inducing acts as the "presentation of the orangewood gavel to the chairman of the Republican National Committee by O. D. Huff Jr., chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission," or Tony Martin singing a "few hit tunes of the Alf Landon...
...Worn threadbare, Christianity no longer inconveniences the mind nor enforces the least interrogation; the anxieties it provokes, like its answers and its solutions, are flabby, soporific. Already we yawn over the Cross...
STRATFORD, CONN.--Well, I never thought I'd live to see the day: Love's Labour's Lost without a yawn. The production that Michael Kahn has directed for the American Shakespeare Festival is outrageous, irreverent, and scurrilous. It is also--almost throughout its entire 130 minutes--inspired, captivating, over-whelming, brilliant, vigorous, dazzling, uninhibited, stunning: a total theatrical triumph...
...author deserves to have the gist of his expose commented upon. Yes, (yawn...), many people at Harvard and elsewhere are dropping and shooting all kinds of funny things...