Word: boredoms
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...characters in Paradise News are on vacation in Hawaii. They travel to forget their troubles and find a cure for their inherently British boredom and problems, but Bernard, Lodge's hero, has a different purpose for the packaged pilgrimage to this exotic island...
Domestic gripes -- economic troubles, boredom with the governing Socialists, anger over corruption scandals -- did most to produce this mood. But it was intensified by, and will further exacerbate, a more general malaise that is % diluting the country's international influence -- precisely when, at a critical time of transition, the European Community needs Paris' traditional leadership more than ever. The French are worried that their country is failing to find a new role in the post-cold war world and that within Europe it is being overshadowed by the rise of a unified and vibrant Germany. Should they assert themselves vigorously...
...overshadowed our century. It dominated our politics, our hopes and fears, our view of the world. It cost us many lives and much money. We learned to live with a permanent enemy, studied his every trait and listened to his endless, dreary polemics (we should not overlook sheer boredom as a factor in communism's fall...
Except to amuse his friends, Lautrec rarely drew couples actually copulating; the character of his brothel scenes is that of inaction, waiting, even boredom, and in this they were perfectly true to the social world they addressed, since most of the life of a girl in a maison close was taken up with sitting around. The tedium of the big-city seraglio becomes monumental, almost Egyptian, with In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, circa...
...ROOMMATE DOESN'T usually take much interest in the University administration. A new committee today, a new dean tomorrow. Like most Harvard students, my roommate sees the University bureaucracy as little more than institutionalized boredom. Even when Neil L. Rudenstine was announced as the next president, my roommate appeared have no concern for what the new leader's first move would be. All he wanted to know was whether Rudenstine had acne scars...