Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Economics concentrators writing senior theses yesterday criticized the department's new required seminars for thesis writers, calling them boring, time-consuming and irrelevant to their research efforts.
All that sudden growth has not marred the temperate beauty of the city. To be sure, the office buildings housing lawyers and lobbyists on K Street look like toasters with windows, but on the residential streets of the city there are probably more attractive homes (Federal, Victorian, stark modern) than...
One night a few months ago, a record executive heard him in the cafe, and offered him a tryout in Chicago. Something out of the blue and tenuous at best, but it gave Collucci an excuse to leave the boring, if secure job at the cafe. He wanted to get...
So much for the intellectual content. The rest of the book is a cunning, amusing and not always pertinent decoupage of articles centering on Blount's South pole: an amusing essay on the habits of the possum; or the tale of a woman who gets stuck to a dry...
Waugh remarried in 1937. To his brother Alec he coolly described his bride-to-be as "thin and silent, long nose, no literary ambitions, temperate but not very industrious." His letters to her, though, radiate warmth; he called her "my poppet" and "Whiskers" and confessed that their long separations during...