Word: boredome
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Once a year, Hollywood tries to kill off TV by driving all gogglebox viewers past he point where boredom becomes catatonia. This year's Oscar awards show succeeded dismally. It was the longest ever televised, and its entertainment value fell somewhere between Jackpot Bowling and the little white blip that appears in the center of the screen after the set has been turned off. Part of the torpor is by now hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest...
...Young's denial of personal expression, his consequent search for newness, and his fear of immanent boredom have brought him full circle to the idea that perhaps only in extreme repetition is there innovation. This is the logical and nihilistic end-point of the avant-gardists' idolatry of innovation and interest. Young is not looking for a new style or a fresh vision of reality but is just killing time. He is not waiting for Godot, he is just waiting...
...Harper; $3.75), is a potboiler with a difference. The difference is the devil. Not that he ever appears, but he is at the heart of a readable but contrived political allegory which talented Novelist Gary (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L) could have written only in a state of boredom. Gary's Faust is Jose, a South American adventurer who figures that if he is bad enough, the devil will see that he makes good. Relatively ordinary vices (pimping, incest) do not seem to work, but when he turns to politics, the devil makes him dictator...
Checks from Montana. In the atmosphere of sharp contrast there is a despondency among the unemployed that arises from insecurity, boredom, a sense of failure and futility, rather than from physical hardship. Compared to the unemployed in other days or other countries, Muncie's jobless are pretty well off, cushioned from dire want by unemployment checks and other forms of social generosity...
...fresh, clean look at the old, old knowledge." To challenge his employees to take a fresh look, Land gives them an individual freedom rare in industry. He offers them special courses in everything from chemistry to photography, often switches production workers to research or engineering projects to forestall boredom and encourage new interests. He encourages his scientists to pursue pure-research projects on their own at least part of the time. Land's aim is "the ideal company" in which "the working life is so deeply satisfying, so richly rewarding that leisure becomes relaxation rather than escape." Land himself...