Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might shiver with the cold; medics thought they would often be hungry; psychologists feared that a massive fistfight might break out. But last week, as the recruits emerged after 14 days of confinement, they made it clear that their molelike life had been tolerable enough-merely a crashing bore...
Like an Old Movie. Scientists of the Naval Research Laboratory found the experiment no bore, gathered enough information to keep them busy evaluating for several months. Closed-circuit TV zeroed in on the recruits has already given, them many of the answers they want. At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted...
...other hand, probably the best pieces in the book are the accounts of Perelman's travels, especially a seven-part series entitled "Dr. Perelman, I Presume, or Small Bore in Africa." The first piece, "This Is the Forest Primeval?" presents the meeting of Perelman, a cringing coward, with the bluff, devil-may-care British explorer group...
Although billed as a Sunday paper, the Observer bore little resemblance to the laminated bundle of news, features, supplements and comics that characterize the rest of the Sunday press. Vol. I, No. 1 of the Observer was a single section of 32 pages-half of it ads. Of six Page One stories, four datelessly treated trends or events long since dissected by other newspapers, e.g., a lengthy article on police corruption that reprised a Chicago police department scandal (1960) and a similar dustup in Denver...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...