Word: dilettantish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keynes was posted to the India Office, but the civil service proved deadly dull, and he soon left. He lectured at Cambridge, edited an influential journal, socialized with his Bloomsbury friends, surrounded himself with artists and writers and led an altogether dilettantish life until Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo and Europe was plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery...
...clocks? Where, praytell, is our spring fever, our raging hormones? Ah, you reply, this is Harvard and we forego such pleasures. After all, everyone knows there's no sex here. But to say that Harvard students are sexually repressed is platitudinous. For many years, Harvard's tireless cadre of dilettantish social critics and pseudo-intellectual newspaper columnists have decried the lack of "healthy" sexual activity at the College. Even the venerable New York Times jumped on the bandwagon. In a recent article on megatrends in college dating, the Times pointed to the "atrophied social skills" of students at elite universities...