Word: boredome
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...armed forces. The majority of American doctors & dentists are not interested in military medicine . . . The thing that makes military medicine revolting to most doctors is not the hardships of service or the burden of overwork in the professional aspects of medicine, but red tape, confusion, idleness, waste of talents, boredom and paper work...
...eight battle-weary infantrymen holed up for 17 days in a dreary Italian "shooting gallery" near Cassino, where they engage mostly in griping, bickering and bantering about the war. But when one of the G.I.s is pinned down in a shellhole by enemy fire during a reconnaissance patrol, boredom gives way to an almost mystical feeling of brotherhood. Disobeying orders, the squad goes about rescuing the trapped man (it turns out, ironically, that he had only sprained his ankle and calmly slept through the night), and marches back to the rear with a new-found sense of camaraderie...
...hinted at his boredom when he told Connecticut's lame duck Senator Bill Benton that the presidential calendar was loaded with speaking engagements up to Jan. 20-and that he was sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused...
...Once Again ..." The critics next day were sharply divided. Mildred Norton of the Los Angeles Daily News called the cantata an "essay in boredom," and added: "The most invigorating sound I heard was a restive neighbor winding his watch." Wrote Albert Goldberg of the Times: "Perhaps only a musician can appreciate the extreme technical discipline involved ... It makes no obvious appeal to anything within the range of the average listener's experience, yet by its very starkness it creates a perfect setting . . . for the old English texts involved. Once again, it would seem, Stravinsky has opened new paths...
...comes from within America . . . While wealth accumulates in these United States, man seems to decay. Corruption corrodes our political and industrial doings ... A pervading relativism, an absence of conviction about what is the good life . . . blunts the proddings of conscience, takes the zest out of living, creates a general boredom . . . Our alleged gaiety is not spontaneous. Our boredom results not only in a reluctant morality but in shockingly bad manners, which most of us do not even know are bad manners...