Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A century ago, educators differentiated cognitive skills from the "lower" vocational skills taught by apprenticeship. This produced a school system in which math, science and reading are taught through abstractions that, in the words of one expert, are "void of the complexities of the real world and thus irrelevant and...
Yet Sandra, like most of Weldon's women, manages to wrest victory out of surrender. For one thing, she tells the story of her flight from boring respectability to middle-aged hedonism with bawdy, invigorating wit; silence may be her best defense in the presence of her new lover, but...
Nonetheless, I do recall there being pressure--mostly self-imposed--to fulfill the double-duty of being not only a good sportswriter, but also a Black journalist who presents a Black perspective in other parts of the paper. I attended many boring news meetings. I ordered myself to write features...
It is "Whipsaw City" on the stock exchanges, in the words of one of the esteemed financial-newsletter editors speaking at this three-day "money show." Up 25 points Monday, down 20 Tuesday. The common opinion, derived by computer analysis of 50 leading indicators or by going out and staring...
However it is celebrated, France's birthday party promises to be anything but boring. The main business of such a celebration is, after all, a kind of % national introspection. More than a century ago, historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the first cool head to examine the various sides of the revolution...