Word: boredome
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More than 60% of Parsons' freshmen used to quit every year from boredom. Roberts fixed that: he brought in six national fraternities and sororities, jazzed up band and football uniforms, hired Count Basic and Woody Herman for spring proms. When he introduced the trimester system this summer, he spiced the package with a noncredit term touring Europe after the junior year. To make Parsons a summer festival, he staged a moonlight Mississippi cruise. Soon due: a summer semester-end blowout, complete with genuine Indians holding up a stagecoach, and contests to choose a Miss Frontier and catch a greased...
...parents were at first appalled at the agenda, they have changed their minds. Asked one mother last week: "What have you done with my child? He was absolutely exhausted when he got home, and then he spent two hours telling us what he did today. Whatever happened to summer boredom...
Carlton-Browne counters the Cossacks with a troupe of left-footed secret service men disguised as Morris dancers. When this proves disastrous (the island's king, about to die of boredom, is assassinated), C-B flies out to compound the calamity, ably assisted by Gaillardia's Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), who embodies everything fine and honest in Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy...
...tightlipped, laconic line of the secret agent. After he and his wife moved to Turkey, he convinced his parents that he was doing only weather work, that he never flew closer than 100 miles to the borders of Russia, that life in Adana was long repetitious periods of boredom between infrequent flights...
...Little Foxes. Graves is one of the few men of letters who can talk shop, for example, without putting up the shutters of boredom or obscurity. What does a good poet do? He captures the sound of his own voice talking, says Graves, a natural voice and "not the one in which we try to curry favour with children at a party, or with an election crowd, or with a traffic cop.'' To show what happens when a poet merely apes passing fashions. Graves does a parody of a Japanese haiku called "The Loving Parents...