Word: boredome
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...Could it be," he asks in his book, The Sane Society, "that the middle-class life of prosperity, while satisfying our material needs, leaves us with a feeling of intense boredom . . . that modern civilization fails to satisfy profound needs in man?" Capitalistic society, Fromm charges, has turned men into robots who have sur rendered their freedom to machines. They suffer, he writes, from a "receptive orientation in which the aim is to receive, to 'drink in,' to have something new all the time, to live with a continuously open mouth, as it were." They can be saved only...
...plot tries unsucessfully to establish a garrison background for the personality clash that is the real story, and merely causes intense boredom. The convolutions of the additional characters are too much to unravel; suffice it to say that all the army types are just that--types--and the women are loyal and kind, if sparingly and stupidly used. Miss York's part, particularly, is wasted, for she disappears about halfway through the film, never to reappear...
...reveals the picture as an extraordinary effort of style, as a definitive treatment of the themes Antonioni developed in L'Avventura and La Notte. As in those films, he employs the method of tedium to explain the nature of tedium, but he employs it so skillfully now that boredom is seldom boring. Vitti, as always, is endlessly fascinating, a luminous mannequin clothed with Antonioni's projections. And Delon is appropriately repulsive as a young man in a hurry. In the scenes at the stock exchange, Antonioni finds his brokers, as Auden found them, "roaring like beasts...
Though personally ascetic, Prince Feisal recognizes that one of the deadening aspects of life in Riyadh (pop. 250,000) is sheer boredom. The city boasts not a single place of entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
Andrus is proud of Minuteman and of his wing: "We have the highest degree of perfection and morale ever achieved in any military organization." Yet he is fully aware of the potentiality for boredom in sending highly trained men underground to sit and wait. All launch crew members hold B.S. degrees, work toward master's in aerospace engineering while on duty. "We don't anticipate that any of these men will crawl the walls," Andrus says...