Word: boredome
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...Hooray for recognizing the stifling boredom of four unbroken walls!" exclaimed one girl in approving the complicated and angular room shape. Whereupon another girl wrote. "I'm beginning to feel like a mouse in a maze and I've only been here two minutes. What we need is space--not imaginative obstructions...
...Chance They Took. In fact, none of those explanations really described the meaning of the march. It was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained suspense of an astronaut shoot or a national political convention-but it built, despite moments of boredom and restlessness-to an emotion-draining climax. It probably changed few minds that had already been made up; the chances were that integrationists would remain integrationists and segregationists would remain segregationists. It was in the probable effects on the conscience of millions of previously indifferent Americans that the march might...
...love you." On modern morals: "Spiritual disease is the problem with the world and the cause of hate, racial prejudice, fights and war." On making decisions for Christ: "Jesus said you must be born again. Christianity can cause you to love your fellow man, meet your futility and boredom, change you throughout...
...Those Contacts. Out of boredom, government officials work late to "help pass the time." Out of loneliness, well, one little thing often leads to another. Single girls, attracted to Brasilia by double wages as government secretaries, find some of the fringe benefits exciting. Says one little thing: "I came to Brasilia to make contacts, and wow, am I ever making contacts...
...must have been an officer who said that war is 5% sheer fright and 95% boredom. An enlisted man knows better. To the ordinary gob of the U.S. Navy, World War II was 90% boredom, 9% infuriating trivia, and only about 1% was composed of that combination of terror and exhilaration in which battles are decided. Surprisingly little of this has come through previous accounts of what life-and death-was like for the anonymous masses of men jammed into the seagoing ovens plying the Pacific, largely because most World War II books have been written by admirals and reporters...