Word: boredome
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...Thoma now believes that this state is probably not hypnosis at all. but a form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that the intelligence of his subjects called for human methods. By this time Britain's gaunt Biologist Julian Huxley, interested in the experiments, had made it possible for the Austrian to carry on at the London...
...Stars Remain Actor Webb, with infinite boredom, takes part in a great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more...
...prolific author of the Rollo books. Her father was first a Congregationalist and later an Episcopal minister. "Before I knew him he had been a Congregationalist," writes his daughter. In the Abbott household conversations turned largely on pious and literary matters, with the three children reduced to boredom when they were not afraid of saying something wrong. Largely a record of the wrong things that Eleanor said, Being Little in Cambridge begins with a scene of consternation when Eleanor declared she could remember her birth, cheerfully described it to some ecclesiastical visitors. It proceeds lightly to a few glimpses...
...murder in the moonlight?" queries the preview. "Well, you'll find the answer in 'Moonlight Murder'." The reviewer did find the answer, and to save you all kinds of trouble and boredom, he'll tell you: it was murder, and in the moonlight...
...deception. While Helen, after leaving Anthony and her husband, falls in love with a German refugee, becomes a Communist, Anthony travels to Mexico, meets a Quaker philosopher who teaches him nonresistance. Mary Amberley develops from a complete immoralist to a narcotic addict, while most of the pleasure-seekers and boredom-avoiders go to pieces in unesthetic ways. Anthony turns into a preacher of positive pacifism, accepts William Penn's credo: "Force may subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that faith has made him courageous. "Meanwhile...