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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Boredom, Ambition at All-Time High | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

Observers in the mostly male Forum audience noted Shelton's distinct style...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chairman Faces Forum | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

More and more, whether because of what movies are made or how they are marketed (or both), movie-going audiences seem to divide into two distinct camps, the art-house faction and the block-buster crowd. The two species have specific and trackable behavior patterns that make differentiation easy...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...journey that took Payanzo from living as a free spirit on a cross-country adventure to being a Harvard undergraduate raising a child is also a story about connecting two very distinct points...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Moms Juggle Schoolwork, Parenting | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...These were separate and distinct individuals," Grundy said. "They came into the world separately and they left the world separately...

Author: By Dave Howland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WITER | Title: Seng Receives Sentence | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

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