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Their graduation is a milestone in a unique program at Johns Hopkins, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. It was begun in 1971 by Psychology Professor Julian Stanley, 58, who remembered his boredom in Georgia public schools and decided "to save these kids from the same experience." Stanley, a statistician, sought out 12-to 13-year-old children in the Baltimore area who had already shown promise in math. He asked them to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test normally given to college-bound high school students. The result: a group of seven boys scored well over...
...symbolize Gene's restless drifting, but again, it could have been handled more deftly. Wakefield is continuously showing him moving, from one university to another, one lover to the next, one town to the next. Everything moves but the plot--which is relentlessly stagnant. Everybody has a threshold of boredom. Home Free surpasses even the highest tolerance for sluggishness in fiction...
...conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife, his comfortable desk job (he is no longer a tough reporter but a slightly paunchy copy editor) and once again save the world, even with his waning superstrength? Or should he safeguard his comfort, ignoring his boredom and his nagging Cronk conscience...
...scene is vividly set-the metallic glare of the sun, the midday lulls during which the air sings with insects. The French merchants and their wives connive and squabble among themselves, fighting off the boredom and psychic impotence that come with their isolation. Missionary priests browbeat the natives for wood carvings, then ship the choicest home to be sold and burn the rest as being in "bad taste...
Certainly nothing much happens in the Russian provincial military outpost where the three sisters are exiled psychologically as well as physically from their dear beloved Moscow. Boredom, drunkenness, mean gossip and despair are the town's leading resources, and the sisters drown in anguish...