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...this whole list many Americans react with a mixture of boredom and dismay. Ford-Humphrey? Reagan-Carey? The leadership of the free world...
...worst thing about it, he says, was the boredom. He spent 18 of his 26 months in the medium security federal prison in Danbury, Conn. "It's supposed to be the country club of prisons," he says, "but it's an undeserved reputation. There wren't too many petty rules, but it's incredibly boring--no library, all you can do is watch television, see a movie once a month, or if you're a member of the Mafia you can play bocci...
According to Lee, when he arrived at what is now Marvel Comics, their comics weren't much different from those of their competitors. The idea to try what he describes as a different approach was, he says, "mine, all mine." The reason for the change was "sheer boredom. I figured, all right, I'm going to try and write the kind of stories I might enjoy if I read comic books. I figured, what would I like? I wouldn't want these card-board figures who are just one-dimensional--a character who's all good, and the villains...
...world he was if he hasn't been thrust there by a society that pushes people into a frame of being without helping them understand the dimensions of their own roles in that society or of all the emotions they will experience: pain and pleasure, virtue and vice, boredom and passion. Equus helps a little in that direction, and while it could've done much more, it certainly rises above much recent theater...
...lives of many Americans is ignored so good solid citizens will be insulated form feelings of compassion for those who suffer. He also describes the slow process of destruction of the human spirit that takes place after years of subjugation to demoralizing authority relationships and the sheer boredom of school: in one of the few moments of levity in the book, he writes that the person produced by the schools "At worst...will be somebody like Moynihan. At best he may be somebody like Galbraith. There is no danger he will be Thorean...