Word: boredome
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...Avventura (in Italian). An interminable but fascinating study of the intolerable boredom that grips contemporary Rome's empty-souled profligates...
...Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative. Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes this Saturday...
...various ways-the mother by marrying every man she meets instead of "just sleeping with them," the younger daughter by sleeping with everybody she cannot bear to marry, and the older daughter, Joan, by riding New Orleans streetcars and listening far into the night to Wagner's Liebestod. Boredom and jealousy of her sister lead Joan into an affair, and soon she finds herself pregnant. She has an abortion, and what follows is a subtly detailed, enormously effective chronicle of mental collapse. When she learns that her lover is having an affair with someone else, she takes to roaming...
...Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes in two weeks...
Recent study has also shown that the boredom and apathy to which Soph Standing was partially a response may be a way for well-prepared students to maintain a sense of superiority and avoid problems of competition, rather than a simple reaction to studying material they have already covered. This may explain why the Exeter Syndrome--"dissatisfaction, disillusion, despair, and departure"--seems common even five years after the Soph Standing program got under way. Misconceptions as well as divergent interpretations have been damaging...