Word: boredome
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...youthful boredom and the hankering for free goods were the principal factors behind the looting, life returned to normal just as euphoria follows fever. Asked why Youngstown, Ohio, was simmering down, Negro teen-agers laughed: "We got social plans for the weekend, and we don't want a curfew ruining...
Speed Reading. During recreation hours, members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...
...future, the falsification of memory, the decay of language, the failure of human potential, and the persistence of human dignity. Yet the movement of the act in which this content is implicit seems to lack internal discipline, to meander where focus should be asserted, to court nonsense and boredom for their own sweet, seductive sakes...
...Firm, with access to its inexhaustible assets, Charlock discovers the paradox of freedom: when all things are possible, nothing is possible. Denied the abrasive stimulation of uncertainty and risk, his creativity grows sluggish. A trip to the gambling tables owned by The Firm proves to be an exercise in boredom. Life for Charlock is reduced to a finite game that, like ticktacktoe, is impossible to lose once the rules have been learned...
...McCarthy are running neck-to-neck in Wisconsin. One recent poll showed them with 40 per cent each, and a 16 per cent write-in for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.). If enough Republicans vote in the Democratic primary--either from a dislike of Nixon or boredom with the GOP's non-contest--they can swing the Democratic race...