Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Said nine-year-old Tim Leffler, of San Francisco: "Hopalong's dull-if he'd only just die once in a while!" Carl Bleiken, a seven-year-old televiewer of Hingham, Mass., complained: "I like Bobby Benson of B-Bar-B Ranch better. He's more truer. Hopalong never gets wounded, but Bobby Benson does. There's a whole bunch in Bobby Benson, and they have good teamwork, not like Hopalong Cassidy." But the deadliest arrow was launched by little Jack Clough of Rye, N.Y. Jeered...
...first picture, Ted Wright stands alone on the campus of State U. Dull-witted, slow of speech, shunned by his classmates, he turns to his freshman adviser, Bob, who tells him about ROTC. Bob, unlike his friend Jim, had joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps as a freshman in college. The pictures follows him as he admires his new soldier-type uniform in the mirror; in no time it has snared a blonde ("I was just thinking," she says, "--you remind me of the song, 'There is something about a soldier...
...single painting. Bernard Lorjou's huge (12 ft. by 18 ft.) Atomic Age made everything else at the Salon des Tuileries last week look either timid or oldfashioned; it was a direct challenge to the aging moderns who have so long shaped French art. By its size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called a god," he storms. "In reality he is a monster...
...play] was a crude piece of work, written in the naturalistic manner but without any real feeling or insight . . . The writing was heavy, dull and clumsy; at every point at which there was a need for action, the action slowed down, clogged by words...
...result is a jumble of the interstellar and the folksy. Characters who are neither living people nor vivid symbols traffic in blown-up emotions and rouged-up words. Besides being high-pitched and mawkish, Burning Bright is frequently dull. Steinbeck might have done far better with a few people talking simple prose in a suburb, might have remembered that writers best achieve the universal through the particular. Blake, who gave him his title (Tyger, tyger, burning bright) could also have given him a good cue: To see the world in a grain of sand...