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Melody smelody. The fact is that boredom is going to be a major factor in this marathon. How do you make a fellow presidential and yet exciting? Gary Hart lets his brown cowboy boots stick out from under his gray pinstripes, a hint of the hombre. John Glenn took an F-16 fighter up for a spin over Texas, and in California "landed" the space shuttle in a simulator, both stunts tailored for the evening news. But boots and jets will not keep the audience interested for two more years. Hart is rehearsing some showstoppers. In Los Angeles the other...
Tightened budgets also affect the purchase of up-to-date equipment and training in up-to-date techniques. One result, according to University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Izaak Wirszup, is "the drill and boredom of arithmetic taught by elementary school teachers not trained to teach modern mathematics." In Japan and East Germany, by contrast, specialized study in math begins in the sixth grade, as does study of biology and physics. Most American children still get only a year of biology in secondary school and few take any physics. Many U.S. high schools ask students to take only two years...
While most of the training and the work is enjoyable, there is also "a lot of tedium, boredom, and frustration." Hoffman admits, saying that he often spends about three-quarters of a day in meetings. "We don't sit around in our spacesuits all the time," he quips...
When Vallely returned from the war to his hometown of Newton, he sought to shed previous apathy's and get more involved in community life. But, like many other men who served in Vietnam, Vallely had to cope with inner problems of listlessness and boredom. Working from nine to five at a civil engineering firm, he says, eventually became a grind...
...inside of a movie studio is to most Hollywood directors: a Turkish prison. This is not the glossy torture chamber of Midnight Express-no theatrical sadomasochism here, no melodramatizing of the color scheme, no soft-focus sexual groping-but a place where ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more righteous villagers are all too willing to play judge...