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...platitudes; his improbable plot is no more than an unwieldy vehicle to parade Wylie's ideas on desegregation, prejudice, sex, miscegenation, brotherly love and a swarm of other fascinating topics. Unfortunately for the novel, Wylie's ideas of these and all other matters are insipid. His book is the dullest piece of writing you can find anywhere on the best-seller list...
...than are dreamt of in Mr. Cohen's analysis. The rest of Canada is obviously bored and tired with Mr. Diefenbaker (save the fervently pro-Diefenbaker prairie provinces). But Mr. Pearson has failed to ignite a spark either. And it must be remembered that Canada's most tiring and dullest Prime Minister was MacKenzie King--and he held office for 27 years! Thomas A. Hockin Graduate School of Public Administration...
...better personality so that I could entertain better. I'm worried that I may be on the dull side." Later, in Manhattan, jet-set Journalist Elsa Maxwell, 79, agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed Elsa, "he's the dullest man that ever lived, and socially impossible." As for those good times that cost no money, Elsa recalled: "I attended a dinner party given by him at Maxim's, and he made all the people there pay for their own meal...
...that has changed. Gone is the ordeal, the struggle, the drama. All that is left is talk. Last week a filibuster was going on in the Senate, and it was the dullest show in town. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took the life out of the filibuster by limiting it to gentlemanly hours: from noon to around 6 p.m. Even if Mansfield carries out his threat to lengthen the working day to twelve hours, the Southerners would still return fresh to each day's round of talk...
...windy, and sales must have been low: the Square had one of the dullest weekends in years. On the following Monday Cambridge City Councilor Edward J. Sullivan, who had demanded that the University pay for its students' exuberance in 1950, proposed a resolution commending Harvard for the tranquillity. "The students," he commented this time, "behaved very well...