Word: boredome
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THRIFT, DUTY, SELF HELP and so on. Kitaj ended up as a dissenter from the whole concept. His experience at Lockheed, he reported, proved "a confirmation of the utter boredom I always feel when art and science try to meet-the feeling of very slender accomplishment in those forms of art which pretend to operate scientifically...
Because it was about liberation, it was about the new society. It was a success because it was, because it overcame apathy and fear and boredom, and was able to happen at all, in a time when so few things that are about a better world happen in daylight. It was not a success because it was repressed. That would be double think. It was a success because it was beyond the law, because it represented a higher more self-sufficient consciousness; because it was thousands of people who really were brothers and sisters for the days of the demonstrations...
...takes no fancy theory to point the way to education. People learn best when driven by curiosity or necessity, a sheer "need to know." Formal schooling aims to create that desire on a mass scale. But when schooling is compulsory, what it often creates is apathy and boredom, an invitation to rebellion...
...still there. So is the American freighter Observer, isolated farther upstream. The British ships were abandoned last year after London underwriters paid out a total of $24 million in claims. The skeleton crews who remain aboard the other trapped ships pass three-month hitches in stupefying heat and boredom, which they combat with lifeboat races, movies and an unending supply of beer. All 15 ships are in reasonably good condition and could either sail or be towed...
Straight off, the Romans illustrate one of Miss Pullar's pet theses, which Americans, engulfed in cookbooks and cholesterol, might ponder: gluttony is the consequence of another sin, boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...