Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marie Sullivan '79 it meant going from a $2.75 an hour dull job in the music library to a better paying, more interesting spot as a research assistant in the psychology department--a big change for a psych major who admits "knowing nothing about music...
...recent years the Times has successfully revamped its entire news coverage, as if its editors had heard a message beyond the grave from its last formidable rival, the New York Herald Tribune, which went down to defeat sloganizing, "Who says a good newspaper has to be dull?" Instead of being a paper where specialists write for specialists, the Times now goes after the general reader. Foreign coverage focuses, and well, on how other people live, their problems and moods, rather than on changes of ministers. Once the rest of the U.S., outside of Washington and New York City, was terra...
Both papers have great strengths. Abe Rosenthal and Ben Bradlee, both able, intensely competitive men, are convinced that a good newspaper doesn't have to be dull. And also convinced that success doesn't require flash and trash...
...still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that it was created "during a deadly dull meeting of the President's Commission on Productivity...
...long-awaited sojurn home in December, to see family and friends, and to hear "oh, weren't finals so rough? Christ I'm glad they're over with. I worked my ass off studying those last couple of weeks." Comments like these do much to enliven an otherwise dull vacation, and the possibilities for more intense discussion are infinite. There's nothing like sharing the relief of all your friends, who themselves can hardly refrain from exclaiming, "You wanted Harvard...