Word: boredome
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...useful vents for youthful frustrations. The greater threat facing Chernenko is not that the Soviet Union's young people are attracted to other cultures, but that the system does not provide for their multiplying needs and locks them into slots at an early age, breeding apathy and boredom. -By James Kelly...
Four years ago the general election seemed the same old game of choice between a ridiculous absolute and a laughable mediocrity. One felt that one's best comment was no comment at all, to vote for John Anderson was to cry boredom at the whole political system, and indeed the country itself cried boredom. Twenty-five percent of the country went of the polls in 1980, and Ronald Reagan's much touted "mandate" was a laughable eighth of the country. But in a sense, Ronald Reagan may be the best thing that's happened to American politics since the depression...
...glassy-eyed boatmen are more drowsy than cold. The crew of the Cooperative Vanguard hand-lettered a sign that sums up " their plight: WELCOME - BOREDOM CITY - POP. 16. Says Doug ("Pee-wee") Flannery, 24, a deckhand on the White Knight: "You just watch the second hand go around." To keep busy, the crew of the Hawkeye has adopted four mallard hens; the men aboard the Ann Blessey cast for carp using hot dogs and cheddar cheese. One deckhand reportedly persuaded the pilot of the White Knight to steer a ragged course around the ice floes in pursuit of real...
...have any problems in the next month or so. My guess is that he started with money again because I was wearing a tattered shirt and an old dirty coat much too light for the freezing winds. But he changes the subject soon, perhaps sensing my boredom with money, the topic on which he had been so misguided the first time...
...music and the Cabbage Patch too. Yet it is the news of the day that occupies most of the time, filling the hours as suddenly as helium. We may be wary of the press, but we are crazy for the news. Why? To stave off boredom, provide relief from self-absorption? There we sit, behind the page, before the television screen, nestled in the assumption that anything new must be valuable...