Word: boredome
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...poked fun at the Nationalists, who sternly reprimanded him. Then the Communists took over. At first the Reds hailed Kan as an authentic "artist of the people." He reciprocated by giving the new regime a plug or two in his tales. But when his listeners showed signs of boredom, Kan promptly reverted to his old style...
...termed printable. In fact, that, to a great degree, is what is the matter with the stuff that appears in the Lampoon: none of it ever evokes a spontaneous "ha-ha," "ho-ho," or even a "tee-heo." The reaction of the average Lampoon reader is one of slow-boredom, gradual sleep, terminating, when he wakes up, with one of bitter disappointment...
...Know They Know." Tomorrow's communique will merely say that "Navy Privateers continued routine patrol operations." Routine is the right word. The communiques could say nothing about the endless boredom, the aching discomfort endured by 13 men sealed in a steel flying tube for ten or twelve hours. Or the gnawing, ever-present fear of the unexpected which could plunge you into the water below-or, worse, make you a prisoner in Siberia. "We know they know we're here," said Lieut. McCord. "Our radar shows when their radars are working. Sometimes they send up fighters...
...opinions, which are dangerous because I believe in America. I also warn them not to send me to jail. I should be more dangerous incommunicado there than I am here at my writing-table, where I can speak my mind freely and defiantly and contribute copiously to the normal boredom of society...
...Father, a young German recalls how his father came home from the World War I battlefront to find the mother having an affair with another man; the figures move and blur in the depths of his memory like shapes under water. Two Men is a stark outline of boredom on a lonely African station; the climax is a blood spree that is somehow more ghastly because its victims are not people, but ducks, geese and flamingos...