Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During Ronald Reagan's intensive press-conference preparations, the tensest moment came on Thursday afternoon in the family theater of the White House. In the course of a two-hour practice session, Roman Popadiuk, a Foreign Service officer on loan to the press office, began boring in on Iranscam. The...
However, many of the proctors don't know what to do with the prefects, and the prefects don't have a clue what their role is. The FDO runs a couple of "training sessions" which are supposed to enlighten prefects and suggest ways to interact with freshmen, but the first...
"They take their careers too seriously. I think they spend too much time attending recruitment meetings," Newman says of his classmates. "They're a nice bunch of hardworking people. They're a little boring, though."
Indeed, one of the biggest hits of the night--and the only tune to include the tried and true folk-song sing-along routine--was Andrew Calhoun's "Folk Singers Are Boring," a rousing work of self-deprecation.
Last summer, one junior found her secretarial job at IBM rather boring.