Word: dullness
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Harvard’s nightlife can often be stultifyingly dull and any club which takes it on itself to throw parties in and around Harvard Square should be welcomed, not chastised. Indeed, the final clubs often generously open up their parties to non-members, thereby subsidizing enjoyable evenings out for many students and not just members. But even leaving aside the fact that final clubs provide a rare beacon of light in Harvard’s dour social scene, the University must avoid the immoral and illegal temptation to interfere overbearingly in the private affairs of any organization, regardless...
...Inspector Aberline (Depp) and keeps the mystery of Jack's identity going until the final reel. This changes the whole purpose of the work from an examination of "a kind of lace tyin' things together. A kind of lace over everything," as one prophetic character says, into a dull murder mystery with conspiratorial overtones...
...endearingly whiny voice and distinct guitar sound remain, but something seems amiss in Everywhere—as if the energy has been sucked completely dry from Modest Mouse. Brian Deck’s production removes the edge and luster from the Modest Mouse sound, leaving the band sounding too dull and warm. The first track, “Willful Suspension of Disbelief,” starts ethereally with a falsetto “everywhere” layered over and over in the background, but this soon proves mind-numbing rather than inspiring. The next two tracks, “Night...
...fear that what we’re really discovering is that all our least charitable hunches and peeves about Sontag may have been right from the start—she is pretentious, not to say stupid, and her prose is dull, not to say wholly unadmirable. Sontag simply isn’t much fun to read. The mind I detect in the pieces about literature, about Borges and about travel, is sensitive and intelligent. She has forged a deserved reputation for herself as the preeminent woman of fine art in the New York intelligentsia...
When people take their kids out of public schools, they essentially give up that ground to whomever wants to stay in it and dominate the education field. Without the participation of the most promising students and their parents, the educational system is likely to be at best dull and at worst oppressive. RANDALL H. COOK Durham...