Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STYLIST A long time ago I lived in a crossroads village of northern Virginia and during its summer enjoyed innocence and never knew boredom, although nothing of consequence happened there...
Sleepless Nights may be short on liveliness but it is long on artfulness: "Everyone dreams of a servant when the ego is bruised . . . Envy is not the vice of the frozen intellectual. How can it seize the mind when boredom arrives before...
...Boredom is the rarely noted but deadly enemy of education. Not just the gifted but all sorts of children can become misfits, and even high school dropouts, if they have no alternatives to the traditional curriculum. McHenry School District Superintendent Richard Farmer sympathizes with the Irwins. "We have been trying diligently," says he, adding, "but in education, the scramble for funds is the name of the game. When the cuts are made, the handicapped programs are what is protected. Gifted children always get their share of cuts. This lawsuit could answer a fundamental question, and if it is answered, that...
...work like musicians approaching an old score with reverence but concern. They chip away at crusted traditions to reveal a musical substratum running under the characters, explaining the emptiness of their lives. This underlying music--on which director Peter Sellars has focused both literally and thematically--softens the desperate boredom of Chekhov's characters, but it also carries their despair home with sentimental poignance...
There are solutions to this problem too. One is to call local newspapers to find out when that community's next hot meeting is likely to be. The other is to trust to luck but come prepared to deal with boredom. The most common solution is yarn; at every town meeting, but especially at the less interesting ones, New England Madame LaFarges churn out mile on mile of afghan and sweater...