Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of helping these women remove the causes of their "boredom and loneliness at home," as Cardozo believes could (and can still) be done, feminists told them to leave home and become absentee mothers, just like their absentee husbands. Says she: "Their only quarrel with the success ethic was that it excluded women." The delusion that the mass of men chained to jobs are free or fulfilled (that kind of fulfillment is only sporadically true even for a handful of trained professionals and craftsmen) was never examined. "Men no longer have jobs; jobs have men," says Cardozo. "Now, jobs have...
...school have found their way into print. The minutes of the panel's May 1975 meetings reported "a lack of ability to fulfill rhetorical objectives [at the school], caused by a lack of administrative and academic leadership and evidence by mediocrity of academic output and apparent student and faculty boredom...
...dancers, jockeys and sultry bathers sculpted over and over, ultimately sum up lives of hard work, frustration and all-too-frequent boredom. They suggest a sense of physical inadequacy to do justice to abstract ideals of ballet, horse-racing or even bourgeois femininity. Degas expressed this despair with regard to his artistic ambitions, when, in old age, he told the painter De Valernes: "I felt myself so badly made, so badly equipped, so weak, whereas it seemed to me that my calculations on art were so right. I brooded against the whole world and against myself." But if Degas sulked...
...matter of course, he was shunted into the steward's department. Recounts Haley: ''I was on an ammunition ship in the southwest Pacific, and the big problem was boredom and loneliness. I had never thought of being a writer, but I wrote lots and lots of letters. And crew members began to come to me for help in writing love letters. I got pretty good at this, and before long it kinda got to be I didn't have to cook any more. I just wrote love letters." While copying passages from a book (he cannot remember which...
...aesthetic embodied in "Marimba," a 1976 work set to Steve Reich's "Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices and Organ," is that of repetitive imagery. The intensity of repetition leads to clearer seeing, deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected. Composer Steve Reich articulates this aesthetic in an essay defining music as a "gradual process." He writes, "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music," a perfect description of "Marimba," a dance about form revealing itself...