Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between one character and another. Eugene Pell as the Merchant is the major offender, with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch with the serious spirit of the play...
...Kerr has written about her family, which is one of those Unusual Families. None of the Kerrs, except the husband (and husbands never count), are normal people. This of course means that everything they do is amusing and clever. After the first few chapters, however, the Kerrs' abnormalities become dull and predictable...
...Called X: "Our problem," said CBS Producer Harry Rasky, "was to take a dull subject and dramatize it." Rasky's subject: Civil Defense...
Many reluctant record buyers believe that chamber music is colorless and dull, hear only the scraping of strings. But often there are no strings attached, as in Rossini's racy, unfailingly amusing Quartets for Woodwinds (Period). Many listeners have come to realize that even string works-Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Beethoven's last quartets-can be as poignant as any symphony. In some cases, record buyers have bitten hard at chamber music, e.g., the Westminster version of Schubert's lusciously Viennese "Trout" Quintet sold 100,000 copies in five years and is still going...
...Rosy" advanced to higher executive position, and did a fairly conventional job in each. For the first semester of his junior year, he was one of the two assistant managing editors, in charge of the paper two nights a week. The papers of that period were dull and routine by todays standards--one historian has characterized them as "bulletin boards"--and F.D.R.'s appear no different from the rest...