Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David B. Lat's insipid ranting about the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism ("The Absence of Rational Minds," Feb 10, 1994) is off-base and a blatant example of the Harvard right-wing's lack of a sense of humor...
Sportswriters these days are conditioned to deal with the insipid. We can fashion a story from the most routine "just happy to be here" lines. But to hear an athlete like Harvard football's Monte Giese '93 step up and say, "I hate Yale. I hate that team and I hate their fans"? What passion! Drama! Excitement! Clarkson University once printed up dinner napkins calling the Harvard men's hockey team "dumb, incestuous masturbators." But would anyone here ever call them a bunch of perverted finks? (Which, with all due respect, they...
...does not inspire the reader to have faith in the future; it does not capture the reader's imagination. Colwin's book barely engages the reader at all. To her credit, the sheer cozy vapidity of her work generates a vaguely uplifting feeling in the end. After 259 insipid pages, the reader deserves more...
...excesses of campus sloganeering stopped there, I would never have found it worthy of anything more than a snicker in the dining hall. But as anyone who lives among the prodigious effluence of postered proclamations well knows, that is not the case. We are daily confronted with hundreds of insipid verbal schemes to snatch our attention, which, though they are sometimes amusing at first glance, soon become intolerably irritating...
...font-crazy ravings of today that, in their witty enthusiasm, often leave off important pieces of information. There are too many organizations promoting too many things. As students sink in information overload, organization's sink into the muck of cheap puns. Their audience, ever more weary of the insipid posters and T-shirts that have become inescapable, get even harder to reach. And so the cycle continues...