Word: boredome
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...their vanquishing, of the reforms that have begun to take shape within the past few years. Possibly the most grievous crime has been the elimination of every possibility of stress: the strong tensions of hunting, free wandering, warfare have been long replaced by the lethal depressants of poverty, ostracism, boredom...
...give you five minutes," saic Princess Kropotkin. Sue went up and stayed an hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...
...parts has received superb treatment, each one is true to a certain American type. Betty Field is magnificent as the rancher's pathetic wife, whom Lennie strangles absent-mindedly. Stroking a puppy, disgustedly watching her sensual husband suck up his food, drumming her fingers on the table in frantic boredom, she draws an unforgettable picture of the same frustration and despair of farm life to which Hamlin Garland gave anguished voice...
...senses by which Duncan explores the house, the April countryside and the consciousnesses around him is one of this novel's claims to distinction. But its serious drive is in a love affair between Duncan and Sophie-an affair begun by Sophie's perverse need and boredom, matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy end-the particular hell through...
...Washington at 2:40 p.m. Mr. Welles entered the State Department, strode into the big, paper-cluttered office of his chief, Cordell Hull. Twenty-nine minutes later Mr. Welles, his face settled into its mask of boredom, Mr. Hull, with his patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge...