Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies-is a martini-oiled mechanism, a country-club wine-and-food snob and bore. His grandfather is a picture of the indignity of a foolish old age. After a successful life as a real estate shark, the old phony has set himself up disguised as a grizzled sourdough pioneer of the Old West-he came from Iowa-and runs a California-type museum devoted...
...children, all given the same assignments and expected to cover the same ground at the same pace. Good teachers know how unrealistic this is. In mental development, children of the same age may be as much as four years apart. To treat them all alike is to bore the bright or daunt the dull without doing enough for the average either...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw. Gab is the gift and the curse of Irish playwrights. Greatly gifted though G.B.S. was, this play of his old age is a cursedly garrulous bore. At 74, Shaw apparently found the construction of a plot beneath him or beyond...
Here Comes the Band. A few more fights and, suddenly, people started to take Cassius seriously. Boxing had been a bore for years-ever since the retirement of Rocky Marciano, a real, hairy-chested puncher. The mobsters and their stable of dull pugs were driving the fans away. But here was Cassius, young, handsome, as brassy as a Dixieland band. He raced around like a candidate for mayor in every city he hit, appearing on radio, TV, grabbing headlines by the handful with his talk about how "great-real great" he was. "The only ones I send away," he grinned...
Nobody really knows what the Los Angeles Angels will try this year, including manager Bill Rigney. In unguarded moments some members of this crazy team have even considered trying to win the pennant. The Angels might do something like that, but chances are a goal so normal will soon bore such characters as Bo Belinsky and Leon Wagner...