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...convincing. A consistent framework of ideological analysis would require a consistent creation, with actions triggering appropriate reactions and events falling into the proper sequence. The heroes of, say, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath are effective by virtue of their humanity, but at the same time they are a bit dull. Each character is always perfectly in character and demonstrates the effects of America's social structure-but no one has any of those peculiarities that might make you fall in love with someone: Steinbeck's people respond to primal urges and human needs, nothing more...
...alarm fire at 56 Mt. Auburn St. shattered the dull torpor of reading period last night. The fire, which a second deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire department described as "a tremendous amount of fire," burned out most of the inside of the dilapidated condemned wooden structure...
...rents, the result was catastrophic. Hotel cases began to climb, and the length of stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...
...fans continued to call for him, Meredith grinned: "There's no way you're going to get me down on that field tonight." He apologized in the closing moments for "not doing a very good job tonight." In fact, his running comments saved an otherwise dull runaway ball game...
...maddeningly undramatic form. The first act consists of an interrogation of the murderer's husband (Richard A. Dysart) by a man who stands in the shadows and is known as The Questioner (Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock). The husband is a dull, evasive clod of a businessman, and the first act is enough of an ordeal to put a playgoer's patience in doubt. The second act redeems all. As certain healers are adept at touching the body to ease pain. Playwright Duras is skilled at touching a woman...