Word: tepidity
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...Republican Club: sponsors of a tepid invitation to Richard Nixon, who wisely chose not to speak at Harvard. The invitation itself, though, caused a massive rift in the club. Joining this one means you are a good candidate for getting corraled into a lot of schlock work...
...this tepid horror movie had been made for peanuts by struggling B-movie makers, it would be easy to forgive and forget. But Prophecy is the work of a major director, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), working with a major budget ($8 million) for a major studio (Paramount). Prophecy is silly, overproduced and boring: there isn't a single scary moment. When the audience shrieks, it is only because the characters are too stupid to get out of harm's painfully obvious...
...existing course. Abigail J. Stewart, acting director of Radcliffe's Data Resource and Research Center, says Harvard faculty proposals for Mellon money have come in rather slowly--two applications for the fall deadline and eight for the spring. She points out that response to a new program is often tepid, but some Faculty may just not be interested. Moreover, the monev can be used only for research in the two Radcliffe facilities. Stewart says research proposals have come from both junior and senior Faculty, but so far all applicants have been women...
BONJOUR LA, BONJOUR is sophisticated soap opera--the kind aimed at people who gag on the tepid nonsense shown on daytime television but thrill to tales of middle class soul rot served up as "serious" drama or Victorian novels...
...proposed resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal of both Vietnamese and Chinese troops. China indicated that it was in favor, but negotiations collapsed in the face of a certain Soviet veto. In the light of Vice Premier Teng's festive reception in the U.S., and Washington's tepid response to the Chinese invasion, the Soviet resentment of America's role in the crisis was superficially understandable, but not warranted by the facts. Moscow had been informed after Teng's visit about President Carter's efforts to dissuade him from any action in Viet Nam. In Soviet...