Word: duller
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...trouble was, says Veeck, "baseball was becoming boring. More games, more clubs, less talent and duller stretches than ever before." He opted for horse racing because "nine times a day you have something exciting happening. That's something most ball clubs can't guarantee these days." Win or lose, he says, "we promise that the fan will have a little fun." Even more, once Veeck gets around to installing the steam calliope that he recently bought...
...resort, the slab-chested challenger, Jerry Quarry, 24, growled: "I'll come out burn-in'." At the nearby Concord Hotel, the undefeated champion, Joe Frazier, 25, growled: "I'll come out smokin'." Fight fans have learned to expect that the loud er the talk the duller the fight - but not this time. At Madison Square Garden last week, both fighters were burnin' and smokin' in one of the hottest heavyweight bouts in recent years...
...Brown have replaced the Giovannis and O'Shaughnessys. The banker who made Skull and Bones is no model for undergraduates, writes Sociologist Nathan Glazer in FORTUNE. "Indeed, often the snobberies run the other way-the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, generally from a small town or an older and duller suburb, is likely to envy the big-city and culturally sophisticated Jewish students...
Author Nourissier, after all, was not alone in postulating a France given over to the duller virtues of domestic peace and prosperity under De Gaulle. Indeed, he regretted the situation: from such young people, he asks at one point, "Can we hope for vigor, depth, distrust and passion...
...could turn out neither readable nor thoughtful pieces this year. Why not a review of mixed-media productions here instead of that sorry shopping list of the props for Prince Erie? Why not something by a senior whose mind is blown on the draft instead of Neal Katz's duller recollections...