Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premature decisions regarding a vocation. The atmosphere of the household was broadly educative, however, even if William later complained of a lack of formal pre-college schooling. Alice recognized and was grateful that her "excellent parents had threshed out all the ignoble superstitions...so that we had not the bore of wasting our energy in raking over and sweeping out the rubbish...
...results of this experiment were unambiguous: the boy decided that his talent was less than his standards demanded and that his standards demanded and that his desire to paint was far from insatiable. Once having rejected a career as an artist, William seldom looked back. His subsequent work always bore the mark of acute sensory perception and aesthetic imagination, but his artistic flair was sub-ordinated to his moral and metaphysical concerns...
...former, he has been led by his obviously extensive acquaintance with the more prominent modern critics of the play to create an awkward intermission in the middle of Act III, Scene 1. Mr. Babe is not, however, without his own reading of the play: he finds it a crashing bore. Now this is probably a novel interpretation, but it cannot be denied that it is a beautifully compelling one; at any rate, Mr. Babe's production certainly comes very close to establishing his point...
...Babe's actors, Donald Lyons and Andreas Teuber, have refused to attempt to bore. Mr. Lyons' rebellion, happily enough, has extended to a complete repudiation of his part. He is the Duke; not Shakespeare's Duke, to be sure, but a dazzlingly royal admixture of Hapsburg and Abdul Hammid, of Bette Davis and John Finley, with perhaps a hint of Angela Lansbury and Major Strasser. When he is on the stage, he does not dominate so much as devastate the pretensions of everyone else. He is, in fact, infinitely more attractive than Shakespeare's Duke ever...
Party-Line Bore. One reason for the trend is an oversupply of papers. New York has trouble supporting seven general dailies-and Paris has twice that number with little more than half the population. Publishers can point out several other causes. Parisians who move to the suburbs and buy cars for commuting no longer pick up a paper to read on the Metro. Since the war the provincial press has boomed. And such party-lining metropolitan papers as the Communist L'Humanite, and La Nation, organ of Charles de Gaulle's U.N.R. Party, have become bores. Most damaging...