Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glee. The pop-culture memory remains cluttered with the tendentious alarmism of the 1960s and with more recent, ham-fisted TV mega- epics such as World War III and The Day After. It is hard to see how any narrative on the subject could avoid being either dogged and dull or archly ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought it off. His A Walk in the Woods is a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this season, it is also...
...style is a story that remains consistently riveting. The convoluted efforts of the psychiatrist Martha Livingstone and Mother Miriam Ruth to discover the truth behind the young nun Agnes' strangled baby have all the fascination of a beautifully morbid detective story. Sex and murder, after all, are seldom dull...
ECAC hockey coaches would be the authors of similar empty volumes if their collective humor and philosophical insight were compiled. How dull are some of the league's coaches...
...housing issue is paramount among the many problems transfers face. Though all transfer students are offered housing through the affiliated housing policy, much of the housing is located in distant and isolated areas such as Peabody Terrace and Botanical Gardens. As David indicated in his article, these are the "dull edges of the Harvard Community...
...missed the first year, the University has all the more reason to make sure we thoroughly enjoy the "Harvard experience." However, transfers are affiliated with Dudley House and placed in off-campus housing like Botanical Gardens (a.k.a. Watertown), or Peabody Terrace. Geographically and socially, we are on the dull edges of the Harvard community...