Word: boredome
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...Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...
...about Owen Glen's childhood in the 'gos, the daily minutiae of a mining town with its labor troubles and civic problems, endless excerpts from its banal little newspaper. Novelist Williams, who has done considerably better in his day (Come Spring) and has almost never descended to boredom, seems almost determined to write a boring story. His success is complete...
...great many other Americans felt the same way. For the past fortnight that Russian face on the nation's television screens blocked not only Howdy Doody, but such other favorites as Lucky Pup, and Life with Snarky Parker. But the show that replaced them-a curious mixture of boredom and excitement, alternating long-winded oratory with sharp, electrifying statements of historic rights & wrongs-was definitely worth America's while. To millions of Americans it brought the unique experience of seeing the enemy right in their living room...
...Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed...
...thing worse than an obviously bad paper is a paper . . . which is obviously good and makes ugly sounds as a matter of deliberate policy. . ." He thought that the Post had almost run the gamut of sex and sensation, predicted that it would soon inspire "a feeling not only of boredom but of distaste and revulsion." Concluded Heckscher: "A newspaper is neither read nor edited in watertight compartments. A liberal newspaper must be liberal all through; it must pay its readers the compliment. . . of assuming them to be intelligent and mature. [Otherwise] it will cease being a liberal newspaper and become...