Word: boredome
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...endemic among poor youth, running more than 40% in many communities. Meanwhile, welfare and social programs suffered drastic cutbacks during the Reagan era. Says Chicago psychiatrist Carl Bell: "Violence is the weapon of the powerless." Agrees Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus of Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan: "It relieves boredom and makes a statement, like graffiti, that says, 'Notice...
...children so seemingly normal went so horribly wrong, the obvious question is Why? The youths, described by police as smug and remorseless, have offered only one motive: escape from boredom. "It was fun," detectives quoted one suspect as saying. "It was something...
...Boredom with the issue of apartheid, not government censorship, has caused a decrease in U.S. coverage of South Africa, a South African journalist concluded at a Kennedy School of Government forum last night...
...year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything is so comfortable, they can try something different." A related reason, however, may be growing boredom with Kohl's stolid style...
...Moscow Beginners tell how they were forced to spend terms of up to two years in prisons reserved for those who cannot be cured by the hospitals. There, boredom was punctuated only occasionally by days of forced labor in understaffed factories. Even the government has admitted that these jails are not likely to keep alcoholics on the wagon...