Word: boredome
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...Petersburg Nights" the Soviets have again produced a propaganda play, but with the all-is-bliss-in-the-Communist-state motif subdued sufficiently to eliminate boredom. Neither boring, nor gripping, this picture has its beauty in the Russian mode of presentation. The intense characterization and fascinating attention to detail make it an artistic masterpiece. Close-ups of the native physiognomy are numerous; the lorgnetted double-chinned dowager, the bewhiskered pre-Revolution land owner, and then the ardent young Nihilist and the inspired musician. In contradiction to the travelogues, Amkino Productions has found some hauntingly lovely Russian women...
...wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...
Boyer enthusiasts have failed to analyze her charm. The voice is cool, remote, essentially Gallic. But a bewitching personal note persists whether she sings of love or hate, boredom or jealousy. Each song has a finely chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early...
...assignments, but the subject-matter of the lectures is so well covered by the books that attendance, at least during last year, was not essential. More so in this course than in any other in the department, the duplication of outside work by class-room work is conducive to boredom...
...dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...