Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That irksome, boring, vital, rewarding, democratic experience
Ideologically and temperamentally, Green is a pessimist who echoes Freud's fundamentally tragic view: humankind's animal instincts limit the realization of its ideals. Such a bleak belief is, of course, a wellspring of humor. Freud did not promise a rose garden, only that the aim of treatment...
If you have $25 to throw around you could better spend it on this book than on pizza and beer. The stories Pryce-Jones and Rand reproduce are clearly valuable. Someone could learn something from them at a boring cocktail party. But the same has been told better by others...
"The mixer was one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever been to," says Mike. "The people were boring, the conversation forced, the atmosphere anything but relaxed, and the music wasn't music. You walk up to someone--you don't know anything--you don't know anything...
Compromising has other problems as well, especially as a political platform. For one, it seems a boring banner under which to rally, and Tsongas does little to shake that feeling. Argument and reason are not enough to sway most of us; we want something to believe in, and the very...