Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...London interviewer from the New York Times, Poet-Playwright T. S. Eliot cleared up a subtle point that has puzzled many who have seen his Broadway hit, The Cocktail Party. Why does one of the heroines go on living a dull life with her husband while the other goes off to Africa to be crucified? Said Eliot: "People are just different, aren't they...
...take it," explained their boss. One enumerator reported that she had become too depressed by the squalor she saw on Manhattan's lower East Side; another explained that her feet were killing her. The majority found the pay too small ( 7¢ a name), the work too dull or the insults too biting. Another Manhattan census taker was fired for filching a $202 check from a mailbox-but the Government had other plans...
Having thus produced a dull thud, unstoppable Joe McCarthy set forth again. Protected once more by Senate immunity, he turned over to committee investigators the name of a man who, he said, would swear that Owen Lattimore was or had been a member of the Communist Party...
...page-assignment teacher. After a few years at Amherst, he moved on to Columbia University to become one of the most noted and notable men on the faculty. He was a spiky-haired scholar, with a hulking figure, a florid face, and a cold contempt for the dull and dimwitted. His lectures on literature were polished performances, in which Erskine paused only to chuckle before dropping one of his epigrams, or to stare icily at some latecomer making his way to a seat. Students flocked to hear him, and in the evenings, if he happened to be monologuing at some...
...good deal more than a performer. He had a passion for great books and great ideas ("Every gentleman owns books," he once snorted at a student) and that was what he wanted to pass on to his students. And so, one day in 1917, at an "otherwise dull faculty meeting," he proposed a revolutionary plan. He wanted to start a special course on the greatest books of Western civilization. It was not to be a course of lectures with knowledge served up predigested by the professor. It was to be a series of discussions which would give students of every...