Word: boredome
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...each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends, to be busy...
...manages to land then lose a succession of unlikely jobs; Christine bears their first child. But Doinel, the eternal mooncalf, is lured away by a Japanese girl. He moves in with the Oriental, who speaks no French and proceeds by slow inches to drive her new lover crazy with boredom. Antoine then woos Christine anew, discussing his general dissatisfaction and lassitude. Long-suffering but still loving, she thinks it over and finally takes him back. The last scene of the film finds them settling in for the wedded duration...
...guards are younger than 34; only 8% are black. To compound Indiana State's age and racial tensions, only a third of the inmates actually work. Boredom is chronic. The prison has only 27 rehabilitation workers; job training is absurd. Since the state provides few tools, vocational classes make do with donated equipment: archaic sewing machines, obsolete typewriters, TV sets dating to Milton Berle...
What then? Glass quoted Architect Roderick Seidenberg's suggestion that the human race "will remain encased in an endless routine and sequence of events, not unlike that of the ants, the bees and the termites." In short, man will be in danger of massive boredom and mental atrophy...
After graduating from law school, Bartels had joined John Lindsay's old Wall Street law firm, but quit after three years. "I was bored," he says. His flight from boredom took him to the office of U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau in New York. In four years there, he says, "I learned the extent of organized crime, the pervasive influence of mobsters." Prodded by his father, a judge in the U.S. District Court for New York's Eastern District, he left Morgenthau in 1968 and went back to private practice. "My father kept telling me I had to grow...