Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As children, we laugh at the fool-hardy monarchy that devalues our heroine and praises her lovely but boring sisters. But maybe this story speaks more pointedly to us than we thought.
* You are not giving up your career. I'll confess my own snobbery about teaching. Like most Harvard students, I consider teaching the noblest profession, and honestly, some days I still consider myself somewhat above it. Six hour days spent diagramming sentences with boring ten-year-olds--this is what...
* If you get bored, give up. In the classroom, you are the only boss. If something gets boring, just stop and do something else. If you don't want to correct something, throw it away. You can't do that on Wall Street.
Then it was too much. It took the media longer than expected to convince the nation that the O.J. Simpson trial was the newest racial battleground in America, but convince us they did. As if it were divine revelation, America unquestioningly accepted this ridiculous conceit to such an extent that...
Who among your readers is interested in the details of baby Gates or the personal habits of Warren Buffett? Has TIME gone the way of PEOPLE? Gates has become more insufferable than TV talk-show host Larry King. More boring than O.J. Simpson. More insupportable than the Newt Gingrich and...