Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn Waugh has ranked with Proust (though "more realistic and much funnier"), is almost totally neglected in the U.S. It is not that Powell is dull; he is indeed much funnier than Proust (though not, perhaps, to the French). It is not that his subject matter is so special as to be outside U.S. sympathy; by now, British upper and middle class life should be less exotic to the U.S. reader than Yoknapatawpha County or the gas-filled pads of Jack Kerouac...
...since the nation's first fully-graded public school-Boston's Quincy School-opened in 1847. Quincy made one radical concession to individuality: desks in seven sizes for growing scholars. Otherwise, all students passed their years together in box-shaped rooms, class by class, the bright and dull handicapping each other. This week Quincy School reopens its ancient doors, admitting 291 more students, still a monument to "egg-crate" education. For a century such schools have changed only the style of their facades-from Victorian Gothic to WPA Colonial to Neo-Revival...
Having kneaded the same sort of upper crust in four books before this one. Author Auchincloss seems unaware that his people are increasingly dull anachronisms. Hi; careful, courtly prose almost manages to confer dignity, but in the end his novel is like the great Newport mansions it recalls -elaborately ornamented in its facade too dry and dusty inside for a modern generation to bother about...
...dare you, sir, suggest-in fact, state -that until 1950 each and every British girl, unless she was born to the aristocracy, was dull, dowdy, poor complexioned, wore cotton stockings and shapeless dresses, and had poor teeth...
Your article on the joyless Spanish painters and sculptors, whose colors-black and white, dull greys, somber browns, putty greens you call the colors of joylessness, fails completely in trying to link their work to a Hollywood version of sunny and passionate Spain...