Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year is any kind of yardstick, the Faculty might as well not bother to clamber up the steps of University Hall to convene at all. Members of the Faculty Council, which simplifies and then forwards proposals to the full Faculty, are predicting that 1981-82 could be unusual for the very dearth of controversial issues that could confront the Faculty. Though the year is bound to contain some surprises--like the fairly sudden emergence of last year's technology transfer issue--the preliminary Faculty agenda looks about as empty as Ronald Reagan's White House in August...
...McEnroe held serve and then broke back with a stunning barrage of outright winners, including two top-spin lobs Borg didn't even bother to chase. The sudden attack seemed to stun Borg, who never seriously threatened to regain the offensive...
...does the creationist upsurge bother him, coming as it does just as his career in evolution is flourishing? "It bothers me," he says, "but for all its latching on the rhetoric of equal time, it's basically an old-fashioned, anti-intellectual attack against toleration, and an attempt to impose dogma on the schools. The only way it hurts my career is that it takes up too much damn time--people always asking you to write articles and be on the radio and t.v., and I don't learn anything by doing that. You don't learn anything by fighting...
...beauty, it wasn't enough." She laughs at herself. "I once went up for King of the Gypsies, a Dino De Laurentiis film. His son, who has since died [in July] in a plane crash, remarked to his father in Italian, 'But she's not beautiful.' It didn't bother me as much that he said it, as that he said it in Italian. I did Italian 105 at Vassar. I told him I understood and that it didn't matter anyway. But I never forgot it. 'What does he mean?' I told myself, 'I was voted Best Looking...
...shade too trusting of the Soviets and too complacent about the military balance-not that the Europeans wanted to do much more themselves about their own bit of the balance. It is very hard, of course, to please the Europeans, and especially the Germans. President Reagan and his people bother Europe whenever they sound at all belligerent. A German Foreign Ministry man was asked what on earth would be Schmidt's definition of the ideal U.S. President. After the briefest pause, he said: "Helmut Schmidt...