Word: tepidness
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...Then, without warning, came a thunderbolt. An old-fashioned stage direction might introduce it like this: Old enemy king-hits writer. Depression. Gurr thought he was winning the arm-wrestle of writing one of his plays when it struck. "The marrow turns tepid, the skin spongy, the eyes dry, the feet stepping ahead in a flat counting-to-ten kind of way," he writes. "You begin to identify with inert objects. A fence post, a wardrobe, a cut stump in the park. You see these things and see yourself in them: a dead thing with a faint memory of flowing...
...Sherwood's case, the course was particularly tortuous. There were empty tables at the fund-raising lunch at Keystone College in La Plume, Pa. The audience response was appropriately tepid when the Congressman was introduced with his wife, who had previously refused to appear with him and now seemed to be keeping a safe distance. Sherwood, you may recall, was the fellow whose affair with a young Peruvian immigrant exploded when she locked herself in the bathroom of his Capitol Hill townhouse, called 911 and claimed the Congressman was trying to choke her. The Congressman, who said he was only...
...afternoon last month, I sat drinking tepid coffee with an Iranian academic in the lobby of a Tehran hotel, and remembered with sadness how relaxed such meetings used to be, and how tense and paranoid, even Soviet, they've become. We didn't talk so much as whisper, all the while eyeing the felt-covered furniture around us, half expecting a bearded agent to pop out from behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about...
...spring 2006 semester. Just one week after the announcement, Kirby resigns under pressure from Summers, setting off a wave of Faculty attacks on Summers that lead to Summers’ resignation in February. Summers’ and Kirby’s resignations, combined with tepid support for the November 2005 report, result in little progress being made on general education during the spring...
...reason may be the tepid response from other rivals, now trickling out over the op-ed pages of national newspapers. Following Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's defiant stance in the New York Times last week, UPenn President Amy Gutmann took to the Washington Post on Sunday with a similar defense of early admissions. (The Daily Pennsylvanian notes the latter today...