Word: boredome
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...Profess with a Passion" [May 6] dissects the heart of the matter. I was beginning to think that no one but students realized the disappointment, boredom and frustration caused by the disinterested and incompetent teachers we are faced with daily. These teachers rarely see our tests, do not prepare a lecture in advance, refuse to be bothered answering a student's question (and too often cannot answer it anyway), and have no interest in whether or not the students are actually learning. As a result, the saving and sacrificing to finance a college education often seems worthless...
...approaches teaching with the conviction that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo...
...open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs. All the livestock soon plods away discreetly into the snow. Back at the ranch, the people play their own brand of choose-up partners and struggle valiantly to keep boredom at bay. They just about make...
...Richard Bereza's comment that people "who aren't quite as capable are better able to endure the boredom of military life" is an ignorant affront to U.S. armed forces. I doubt that Bereza would be alive to say this were it not for the professional military men who led our civilian soldiers with magnificent brilliance in World...
Making his feature-film debut with La Fuga (The Flight), Director Paolo Spinola brings off one unabashedly lesbian love scene, but mostly his camera composes a critical essay on wealth, boredom, lovers, luxury flats, all the icons of fashionable corruption that Italian moviemakers love to hate. The rest of the movie is so elliptical that Giovanna's "tragic death," presumably by suicide, is never explained, and cues the physicist to recall more of her unhappy history in flashbacks pressed from a charred diary. Sad to say, the dead wife's darker secrets turn out to be less interesting...