Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undergraduates avoid blaming themselves for their failure to be educated. But they must bear much of the responsibility. When asked what he found most surprising about Harvard, a visiting professor from Australia replied: "It's the students. Most of them are rather dull. They sit in the back and don't ask any questions...
...once a mainline monopoly, but since the 1960s it has been dominated by evangelical aggressiveness. In the wake of the squalid televangelism scandals, mainliners last fall launched an interfaith cable network called VISN. It is potentially their most strategic project in many years, but so far programming has been dull and dated. Significantly, it was a secular cable company, not mainline agencies, that came up with the idea for VISN...
Some names are dull. Penn's JV heavyweight boat is called "Class of '62." A genius grant to the person who christened that craft...
...Stealth Mayor" Bradley keeps a low enough profile not to be associated with the city's problems. Unlike New York City's Mayor Ed Koch, who blurts out insults to someone nearly every day, the resolutely dull Bradley has said hardly anything memorable in almost 16 years in office. But the mayor is no accident in California politics. Like most public officials in this trend- making state, Bradley is part of a wave of certifiably boring, aggressively bland politicians. How else to account for Governor George Deukmejian, Senators Pete Wilson and Alan Cranston and others too unrecognizable to mention...
colleagues brace themselves for a knock-down, drag-out battle. -- Hugh Sidey calls on Wright to step aside. -- Are dull politicians the next big trend from California? -- Abbie Hoffman, the antic revolutionary, dies...