Word: boredome
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...into words. "We subpoenaed the conscience of the nation," said Martin Luther King Jr. The march was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained suspense of an astronaut shoot or a national political convention-but it built, despite moments of boredom and restlessness-to an emotion-draining climax. It was in the probable effects on the conscience of millions of previously indifferent Americans that the march might find its true meaning...
...that even highly intelligent adventurers are notoriously bad at answering one of two questions that they are always asked (the other question is whether they have a death wish, and that answer is easy: no). Everyone remembers ad nauseam that Mallory, perhaps in some brown mood of irritation or boredom, intoned "Because it is there" when asked why he wanted to climb Everest. The pomposity of the answer is so far out of character that it seems likely that what he meant to convey was "Go away and stop asking good questions...
...stuffed sheep's head, the full-dress safari with Bond as the prey, the chase through the bazaar, the fight with the portable buzz saw, the wing-walker aerobatics that would surely end in the Afghan's death. Or was it just a reflex of exquisite boredom on the face of a polo player named Louis Jourdan...
This irrelevancy is itself somewhat interesting when one considers Mailer's career. I can only guess that after Mailer's powerful and fruitful engagement in public affairs in the '50s and '60s, the much discussed stagnation of the '70s finally filled him with boredom, a boredom with society that festered even as he wrote the Marilyn Monroe books and The Executioner's Song. A desire to get the heavyweight crown for imagination was probably not the only thing that drove him to Egypt. Disaffection and disgust could well have had a lot to do with it. Mailer may have imagination...
...sound at one moment girlish, at another manly. Yet often her guttural inflections serve her well, as she threatens either Sybil or Elyot. Burton fares better, for he avoids Taylor's tendency to slip into broad, overstated gestures. However, Burton's disinterested demeanor occasionally seems to reflect a boredom with his part. And his and Taylor's hostile interludes lead to the play's most unintentionally humorous moments...