Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover story on heart disease, TIME reporters visited medical centers around the U.S. to stake out the nation's No. 1 killer. Many were soon experiencing palpitations and sweaty palms. The diagnosis: anxiety over their own heart-wrecking habits. Says Midwest Correspondent Patricia Delaney: "I felt dull chest pains when cardiologists vividly described the symptoms of a heart attack, and afterward I sadly declined wine and butter at lunch. I even got an electrocardiogram, and I began to exercise more." After visiting a hypertension clinic in Manhattan and a diagnostic center on Long Island, Correspondent Mary Cronin persuaded...
...RECENT New York Times magazine article reported that Vienna, once the cultural mecca of Europe, had grown deathly dull. The reason, it added, is that there aren't many Jews in Austria anymore. The writer noted that anti-semitism persists, nevertheless...
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins...
THERE ARE TWO kinds of biographies: inspiring accounts that create a vivid awareness of a life, noteworthy or dull; or uninspired accounts of genuinely fascinating lives. Most of the bestselling biographies that flood the market fall into the latter categories--loving accounts of tremendously visible figures. People obviously want to know what it was like to be close to a Fred Astaire, or a Marilyn Monroe, or an Arthur Fiedler. But after the reader's curiosity has coaxed the book's price from his wallet, he is likely to come away with the conviction that--yes--what they taught...
...Conform and be dull" warns the poster in the office of Terry Deal, associate professor of Education. The maxim might provoke sarcastic giggles in the halls of Langdell or Baker, where conformity is a revered tradition, but at the Graduate School of Education, the poster seems to reflect the general sentiment of students, faculty, and administrators. From its low-key plans to shift its emphasis to the individual school and school leadership, to the clubby amblance of happy hours at its student cafe, the Ed School belies the image of the anxiety-ridden Harvard graduate school...