Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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We would seem to borrow most from the middle of Harvard-the placid, academic, somewhat boring postwar years. But our complacency is not the same, stemming from a bleak and not a sunny view of what lies ahead. Not many in the Class of '82 plan to burn around next...
* a column by their mentor and unofficial adviser Dartmouth English professor Jeffrey Hart, entitled "Black is Boring";
"When they first asked me to do The Rake," says Russell, "my heart sank because I had this memory of the most boring evening of my life. I'm not interested in being different for its own sake, and the music in any opera is sacred to me. But...
There is certainly nothing boring about this Rake. For all its flashy images, the production captures the opera's cautionary moral spirit. Russell, however, is more concerned about a contemporary demon. Tom and Anne are watching TV as the opera opens, and the commercials excite his desire for the...
The world cannot stare too long at an abyss; the abyss stares back, or simply grows boring. We revert to our customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since...