Word: boredome
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Aside from boredom, however, I have growing sense of the political nature (as opposed to moral or educational) of the Administration and many of the Faculty. I do not mean to suggest that many Faculty members are out to get us. Some perhaps are, and many administrators may feel that their jobs would be a lot easier without us. For one thing, they seem to feel that if we weren't around, it would be a lot easier to deal with dissidents in student government, black students, Radcliffe girls, graduate students, junior faculty, and even some senior faculty...
...Success, Status Anxiety. There never was a Boston Sound, a music with its own definable character, and that is partly the fault of the musicians, partly the fault of the expectations of the audiences. They preyed upon their music with the teeth of unfair comparison, and took out their boredom as a token of their hipness. The musicians were wasted away by self-consciousness. These are to some degree the afflictions being visited upon the whole rock scene today, out Boston consumed itself in its rage to be recognized. It forgot that it was supposed to entertain, and not posture...
Though police in quieter cities may claim boredom as the cause of their naps, New York's Finest have some of their own reasons. "It's the moonlighters who are so beat by duty time that they have to sleep," says a Brooklyn officer. Another reason: all regular policemen are assigned to a different one of three daily shifts each week, thereby rotating undesirable night duty. This means that a man who goes to work at 8 a.m. one week reports at 4 p.m. the next and at midnight on the third. As any doctor can testify...
...energy of the poetry and the drawings is boredom, which drives the desire and lust of "the true voyager," one of "those who move simply to move -- like lost balloons!" Each illustration has a dark brushstroked background, as if it were an image cast upon a dark imagination -- "a mirage of agony...
...reader -- hypocrite, mirror-image of the poet -- peers from another of Nolan's paintings. Only the essential features of the face are defined -- in heavy skeletal patterns. The obscure background overcomes the face's body. We are forced to recognize the identity of the face, the soul. "Its BOREDOM.... This obscene beast chain-smokes yawning for the guillotine--you--hypocrite Reader--my double--my brother...