Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It would probably be considered extraordinary if half of the members of the Harvard football team decided they had or wanted to leave practice a half-hour early each day because the last few drills were tough or boring or because they had to study. They of course would never...
Personal and racial relations are delicately balanced and subtly revealed to young Simons. The important lessons come not from the books in the Doctor's library but from what he calls "the whole alphabet of worldly maneuver." At the Baby Grand he learns how to drink beers with folks...
THE MOST OBVIOUS PROBLEM with Android is that it doesn't live up to the blurb on its advertising posters, which claims that it's time for Max 404, our hero, "to get down to earth." After spending an hour watching life in this floating lite-bright set passing for...
Most of White's problems seem to have resulted not so much from any refusal to face life but from the refusal of American critics to accept the personal diversity of writers. American society, though by no means always moral, is overwhelmingly moralistic; at different times, under certain conditions, some...
Perhaps the most obvious source of Hart's allure is his freshness on the political scene. "He appeals to younger, better-educated and independent types who have little loyalty to institutions," says Alan Baron, an editor of a political newsletter in Washington. "They see Hart as new, independent and...