Word: boredome
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...boredom the only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like...
Readers of Liberty, nickel-weekly, last week found "JOYRIDE, A Story of Love ?and Wings," by Alicia Patterson. Opening lines: "Laura Withers was bored. Not the casual brand of boredom that smart women like to wear. But a stifling boredom. . . ." Editor's blurb: "... A young writer with experience as a newspaper reporter, known to readers of Liberty through her articles on hunting, fishing and flying. This time she has turned to fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago...
...talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something to do between dinner and bed. There is a master criminal named Malatroff who classifies his subordinates by number, and is interested in procuring the Maharajah's ruby or a string of pearls from a Youngstown, Ohio, millionaire living at Nice...
...Quintero quiet does not lead to boredom. The brothers realize that when there are no big things to be dramatic, small things become so. Theirs is a glancing, fragile but wholly affecting art. The Civic Repertory company interprets it admirably...
...Significance. The boredom and inertia so frequent in Author Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) never occur in A Farewell to Arms. He has gone back to the cause of that weariness-the desolating conflict of nations. In that time bravery and rapture were gloriously commonplace, scarcely aware of the exhaustion which was to follow...