Word: boredome
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...Canaanites seem to be having some of the same trouble that old Canaanites had almost 2,000 years ago. They were called "scribes and pharisees," and they crucified one who sought to take the boredom out of traditional religion and put "life" into...
...Boredom. Nub of the ministers' charge: "Young Life is. in effect, a separate teen-age church, financed and directed by adults who are not answerable to any local group. We believe its outlook is too narrow, and that its emotional effect is eventually damaging to the young people most attracted by its appeal...
...Leaping boredom and vaulting ambition are not Billy's only reasons for wanting to leave town. He is on the point of being exposed for an impressive list of minor misdeeds. A great pile of undertaker's promotional calendars, supposed to have been mailed a year before, still have not been mailed out, and the stamp money has gone for beer. At least two young women think they are engaged to him. Because the clacking of his own tongue can drown the ceaseless humming of the humdrum, he has told an elaborate and pointless series of lies...
...Arlen score, despite good rhythmic effects, never really gets its beat off the ground. The two or three times the dancing turns lively suggest a last two or three rounds of ammunition desperately fired at the advancing battalions of boredom. Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel are agreeable leads, but to little avail. With none of the succulence of a great big old-fashioned dinner, Saratoga induces all of the somnolence...
...MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT, by Angus Wilson. The freshly widowed heroine tries to find a career and a woman's card of identity; all she seems to turn up is welfare-state boredom and ineffectually Angry Young Men, many of whom are not men at all. Author Wilson, his fine style dipped in malice, deftly destroys whole chunks of English society...