Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Clerk Comer Rowan sat in for his wife at the switchboard of Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel. It was a dull hour. Out of the front door, cold moonlight flooded deserted Peachtree Street. In his tenth-floor suite, white-thatched, 70-year-old W. Frank Winecoff, who built the hotel in 1913,* slept soundly...
...small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly it seemed, the jumpers trailed long, long cries...
...Inwardness & Absurdity." On the surface Kierkegaard's life was both short and dull. Born in Copenhagen in 1813, he spent his college years in dilettantism, passed a course of theological studies cum laude, but was never ordained, fell in love but did not dare ger married, used up his inheritance in publishing his books, and died in 1855 at the age of 42-just when his money had run out. But that was Kierkegaard's life on the surface. His real life was a long, exciting, bitter, lonely struggle within himself. The fruit of that' struggle...
Appassionato (Lux-Saga) is a genteelly lethargic Swedish-made film about a girl who is loved by one young and one not-so-young pianist. The middle-aged one never really has a chance. Few U.S. moviegoers will care particularly that this is a fairly dull-but well photographed-movie. What they will notice is the girl, Viveca Lindfors, auburn-haired alumna of the same Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy which gave Hollywood both Garbo and Bergman...
Such an all-around background has given him a balanced view even of Basic English. He laughs off the nation that he wants to force anyone, including himself, to speak only Basic. "It's too dull!" he exclaims. "You can't swear...