Word: boringness
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Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom agree with Brewer that "English squash isn't really harder. It's a bigger court, as well as a slower ball, and certainly it is a game of greater finesse. But certainly in American squash you can run around." Thernstrom, who is often sighted...
Associate Professor of Economics and Population Rober C. Repetto would probably agree with Maier. "Running is better than nothing, but basically it's boring." He prefers touch football, tennis, squash, skiing--and especially basketball. "I love it. I was captain of the basketball team as an undergraduate, and now they...
Philip A. Kuhn, professor of History and of East Asian Civilizations and Languages, sees physical endeavor as an alternative to total decay." Unlike many of his colleagues, though, he is unwilling to exercise in a boring or repetitive manner. He prefers to go cross-country sking in New Hampshire's...
Brezhnev was his country-genial, brutal, boring. He had the face of both plodder and plotter, being something of each; a scholar's face and a doorman's, the kind one does not notice until it is in charge of things. In the West one saw him mostly...
Whimsy is currently in short supply, a deficiency that makes Douglas Adams' new book all the more welcome. Life, the Universe and Everything (Harmony; $9.95) is like nothing ever published before except, perhaps, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also written by Douglas Adams. Once again the...