Word: wonkish
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...prove that a self-described "domestic" President could hold his own in the complex realm of international politics. He brought his genial man-of-the-people act to the streets of Brussels, Prague, Moscow and Minsk, even as he tackled economic and security issues from Russia to Bosnia with wonkish concentration. Boasting of breakthroughs on Ukrainian nuclear arms and the detargeting of Russian missiles, Clinton proclaimed his trip a success. Said a senior official traveling with the President: "We absolutely did everything and got everything we hoped for." But while music hath charms, Clinton's work on the international front...
...another Harvard dealer, who has become inactive this year, has a different theory. He said overall drug use at Harvard has declined not because freshmen and sophomores are so worldly but because they are "in general much straighter than the classes before them... so calm, jockish, and wonkish...
...professional odyssey of Harry Blackmun has turned back on itself. From the bright but wonkish budding mathematician. to the eager young lawyer, to the dissatisfied middle-aged man who gives up the law to follow his benevolent instincts, he has returned to the position of legal scholar. The rest of the journey is well known to everyone. It will probably end in a few weeks when Blackmun takes the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Mr. Justice Fortas a year...
...there is also a terrific lot of boobs, about whom I must warn you. (The Admissions Committee, you know; and with all this scholarship money, there doesn't seem to be any end to it.) They are so frightfully earnest (I detest the word "wonkish," don't you?), and they simply insist upon taking over everything. Hardly a thing remains in Good Hands, you know...