Word: boredome
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...whore smiling form the hip should be a good talker. Mr. Mailer is, and was Friday--at least, we learned, for a while. He did not, in fact, dine at all, but kept his post by the bar, answering the honest and ridiculous questions of undergraduates without sign of boredom, resisting even the beckoning words of the young daughter of the host who leaned over the bannister above Mr. Mailer's head to whisper desperately "Dinner, dinner...
...Zumwalt's "New Navy," officers and enlisted men alike sport beards, waxed mustaches and hair long enough to have put them on report three years ago. The chief disciplinary problems are drug abuse and racial tension, though in scope they barely match similar problems suffered in the Army. Boredom is pervasive. As one Buchanan sailor puts it: "I sometimes go topside and stand at the rail, watching the moon on the water. I just stand there for hours like some damn U.S.O...
That brings us to the New York Yankees, the erstwhile kings of baseball, now the reigning kings of boredom. New York has fallen on hard times, but it may stage a mild resurgence this year. The pitching is spotty, with only Mel Stottlemyre anything above average, the defense is hardly anything to write home about, but the offense, led by Bobby Murcer (the Yankees entry in the "superstar" category), Roy White and a gaggle of good young players could produce. But, alas, the Yankees are still dull, dull, dull...
Right ON! to crime in the streets, the hammer of discontent. Right ON! to all that is dark and primitive in the modern teen-age soul, our deliverance from boredom. Right ON! to the violence of the street wanderers of Harvard Square. Up the revolution!! Street people were lionized by the Left as the Young Vandals who would accomplish the sacking of Amerikkka...
...best poker player at Harvard may be a woman. Kitten, a senior at Radcliffe, plays in Harvard's biggest game, where people have been known to bet $10 just from boredom. Betting on the last round can go considerably higher...