Word: boredome
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...number of guerrillas fighting Castro from the Escambray has swelled to some 1 ,000 men. By last week whispered tales seeping out of Cuba told of pitched, no quarter battles in the Escambray and of hospitals overflowing with wounded. The reality was far different: fear, fatigue, hunger and boredom, punctuated occasionally by wild, often accidental fire fights in the wilderness...
Nothing goes right. The collective farm manager is cooking the books and concealing a pair of White officers dying of boredom. The Cossacks frustrate Davidov's best efforts with peasant slyness, cheerful inefficiency and occasional open rebellion. When he does get a field mowed, the hay is promptly stolen by farmers from a neighboring collective run by a fat and crafty Ukrainian. And, for once in a Soviet novel, a girl proves more lovable than a tractor: lush, hot-eyed Lukeria soon shows Davidov that there are better uses for a meadow than grazing cattle...
...play bogs down when the focus shifts from this utter frivolity to a pretention of seriousness. There is twisted passion, a love triangle, a murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point...
...weeks ago, Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell sat down behind a typewriter and pecked out a column. It was the first he had written in nearly two months; but whatever Winchell had to say he kept to himself. "I went to the typewriter from sheer boredom, doing nothing," he said. "I played around with a column and then tore it up. I'm just not ready to pick up again...
...oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months and returned to the university...