Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chorus after chorus of the Marseillaise, which in Belgium has a distinctly revolutionary, antimonarchical flavor. Baudouin and bride heard none of this as they stepped out of the plane at the airport. "Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine!" cried the small welcoming delegation. Then, under heavy escort, their limousine bore the royal couple through the riot-torn city to the palace...
...income." But sometimes she finds it all a dreadful bore: living in a museum, knocking about in county tweeds, keeping the upper lip stiff as she rakes a fresh batch of manure into those horrid little mushrooms in the cellar...
Actually it is the setup that pulls the show down, for it makes vice as insipid as virtue. Constantly recalling Guys and Dolls, Do Re Mi so little equals it that where the book of Guys was a blessing, Do's is a bore. And whether from an effort to even things up, or merely by contrast, the music at times seems fiendishly loud, the dancing fiendishly frenzied...
...poor Vangel Griffin goes forth to have his values laundered. He leaves his wife (a bitch, in his words), his job in a law firm (a bore), and his country (a Babbitt hutch), and goes to Spain. Vangel has some sense of purpose: he intends to commit suicide in exactly one year. A woman takes his mind off his goal...
...distinctly American contribution to the art of fiction is the discovery that success is failure. In the first 500 novels devoted to this notion, the unimpeachable moral that a man may lose his soul while making money proved reasonably arresting, but by now, the theme has become an overpowering bore and need no longer be written; it can be assembled from the fictioneer's cliché kit. The recurrence of the theme may prove, as some claim, a deep uneasiness in American materialist society; or it may merely prove the uneasiness (or an eye on an easy market) among...