Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
...gifted father beat him up, as he must admit in the next sentence: "Whether Ali's childhood was like this, or anything like this, it would be impertinent to guess-and he isn't saying." This is the sort of guff that the English press writes on dull days: "Is Queen Elizabeth pregnant again? It would be impertinent to guess, and she's not saying...
John Reed '10, the only American buried in the Kremlin, shortly before his graduation summed it up like this: "College is like the world; outside there is the same class of people, dull and sated and blind." Reed's theory probably has less currency than any other; all the rest depend on the notion that Harvard is different, and therefore worth puzzling over...
...heresy, but Finley is an unabashed maverick. "I've never seen so many damned idiots as the owners in sport," he sputters. "Baseball's headed for extinction if we don't do something. Defense dominates everything. Pitching is 75% of the game, and that's why it's so dull. How many times have you seen a fan napping in the middle of a football or basketball game? Hell, in baseball people nap all the time. Only one word explains why baseball hasn't changed: stupidity! The owners don't want to rock the boat...
...time when every trade, from market research to plumbing, is said to have a "philosophy," we sooner or later had to get The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $7.95). This necessarily slim volume will be one of the curiosities of the coming fall. Lack of appetite means dull writing, and Warhol's specialty is absence of Lebenslust. His act has been to desire nothing more than fame, money and the occasional Hershey bar. He has become a parody of the Astomes, those fabled inhabitants of the medieval bestiaries who, living entirely on air, possessed neither anus...