Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's economic views were of no help in last week's primaries in Jimmy Carter's Southern stronghold. The President overwhelmed the Senator by 10 to 1 in his native Georgia, 6 to 1 in neigh boring Alabama, and nearly 3 to 1 in Florida. Carter...
J.G.B.'s success is based on an intelligently demanding choice of texts, a discussion method called "shared inquiry," and on precise, literate questions calculated to unlock the pleasures and mysteries in each story's heart. For both students and discussion leaders there are some unusual rules. Program leaders...
There may be some truth in all this, but these triangular banalities no more explain the dancer's sad fate than they illuminate his genius. His troubles with what would now be called "relationships" are the symptoms rather than the causes of his collapse. Some people will be titillated...
Police say that Parnell convinced the young Stayner that he had been put under his custody by a court order. The boy tried to run away once, but got lost and returned. Stayner became known as Dennis Parnell and even began calling his kidnaper "Dad." They ended up in the...
We discussed the evening's topics: who had come with who, a new chemical that had surfaced recently and how well it did the trick; boring and idle talk. The bartender, a young and subdued blond, asked me about the U.S.; he listened, cynical. I became the amusement that evening...