Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consensus of the Committee was that the Graduate School of Design (GSD) requires the achievement of excellence. Members found a lack of ability to fulfill rhetorical objectives, caused by a lack of administrative and academic leadership and evidenced by mediocrity of academic output and apparent student and faculty boredom. Discussion centered on three areas of concern to the Committee...
...Committee member expressed dismay over the mediocrity which he considered characteristic of both faculty and student output at the GSD. Other members concurred with his impression of a pervading boredom and lack of excitement resulting from a lack of a sense of purpose. Members were very concerned that 1974 GSD questionnaire results indicate only 39 per cent of GSD graduates as a whole considered their GSD training "very useful," while 49 per cent found it "somewhat useful" and 12 per cent found it of little or no use. One member suggested, however, that the current students' complaints about the quality...
...direction compensates for the flaws of his overambitious update. Naturalistic acting undercuts the philosophical pronouncements of each character, rescuing the production from pomposity or soap-opera sentimentality. David Moore's ultra-modern set is a nice consequence of this update; the usual drawback of a one-room set--visual boredom--is offset by diverse and dramatic lighting by Chris Stone and Ginger Thomson...
...difficult at best. Personnel at the base have to scrape frost off the windshields of their Jeeps each morning, but before long they will be sweating out midday temperatures that can reach 130° in unshaded areas. Flies and sandstorms are routine, hailstorms are seasonal. To ease the inevitable boredom, there will be tennis, volleyball, movies, and television from both Cairo and Tel Aviv. There will be no swimming pool, however, because there is not enough water...
Amid all the boredom that New Hampshire and the major presidential candidates generated Tuesday, there were generous moments of reprieve, and most of those moments were generated by a tantalizing slate of absurdist candidates...