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Lonnie Corder, a 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman, recently placed a classified ad in the Oklahoma Daily: "Are your parties a little dull? Rent a hippie. Nothing that will spoil the atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman, Okla., are renting the longhairs of the counterculture to decorate their parties. Thus, presumably in a triumph of free enterprise, a student whose parents have cut him off for looking like a freak can work his way through college by being...
...death, love and the mutilation of love in the microcosm of the family. Some of the greatest plays of the Western world revolve around these subjects. But Albee has simply not given them any dramatic urgency or compelling emotional life. When All Over is not dead, it is dull, and mostly it is deadly dull. An unseen man is dying in a curtained-off area at the rear of the stage. Spread across the front and center are the people who have been closest to him during his lifetime. Each recites what role he or she filled in the life...
...requires careful listening for an understanding of what's going on around, behind, and in the story-line. And for some of the episodes, what's going on isn't really worth the careful listening-the surreal qualities of the show's construction become less than real, or just dull...
...generated by the possibility of a four-day work week [March 1] is evidence of the great American misconception: that happiness and fulfillment can be purchased through material goods and leisure time. The four-day worker is really saying: "I don't like my job. It is too dull, or too hectic, or whatever. Let me finish it as quickly as possible and get on with something I enjoy...
...years as executive director of the National Urban League, the imposing (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) Young, who was a dull public speaker but an articulate private persuader, had transformed the League into an activist job-seeking organization with new roots in the ghettos. Before Young's arrival, the League's image had been that of a research-oriented interracial group whose members prowled libraries and whose middle-class contributors munched cream-cheese-and-olive sandwiches at suburban teas, while deploring the plight of city blacks. Under Young, the League helped 54,000 blacks find jobs...