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...Anderson puts the questions anew in the second, longer, and stronger of his duo of playlets, Solitaire/Double Solitaire. (The first is an Orwellian fantasy penned in plastic.) In Double Solitaire, Charley (Richard Venture) and Barbara (Joyce Ebert) have allowed 23 years of marriage to carry them from bliss to boredom. Charley is also caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl he doesn...
Perhaps Restic's biggest problem as a diplomat-coach is his unhappy quarterbacks. The all-too-familiar boredom of Harvard's offense against Northeastern was the work of Rod Foster, who complained that Restic's plays are too complicated. Instead, Foster, who called his own plays, chose to stick with a simple running game and a passing game that produced zero yards and three interceptions in the first quarter. Eric Crone, Foster's injured counterpart, hasn't mastered the playbook any better than Foster, and both he and Foster are unhappy with Restic's refusal to pick one quarterback...
...Boredom and resentment were heightened by shabby living conditions. Many units are garrisoned in barracks once used by Hitler's Wehrmacht, some built in Bismarck's day. Heat and hot water are inadequate, plaster peels, pipes leak, and toilets overflow. Nearby Bundeswehr (West German army) troops, meanwhile, live comfortably in post-World War II quarters...
High-grade Hashish. Bad living conditions, the lack of a sense of mission and plain boredom have contributed to a heavy increase in the use of drugs. In one survey of 3,500 men, 46% admitted to some level of drug use. High-grade hashish imported from the Middle East or North Africa is easily available at $1.25 a gram (v. up to $15 a gram in the U.S.). Although heavy hash users rarely become violent, they often wind up in the stockade as a result of apathy and loss of memory that make them incapable of obeying orders...
...describing how he was psychiatrically shriven of fear, at least for the time being, Greene quotes Dr. Freud: "Much is won if we succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Alas, the post-couch Greene found himself afflicted with what he describes as a lifelong case of crushing boredom. Antidotes have included staying more or less drunk during his whole first year at Oxford, as well as a famous incident-described in an earlier literary collection and incorporated almost verbatim into this book-about playing Russian roulette with his brother's revolver. After six attempts, Greene insists...