Word: boredoms
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Many underlying pressures for disruption, the panel conceded, are linked to problems that schools cannot fully control: drugs and racial hostilities. But in addition, "the schools are unstable to a large extent because of student alienation and boredom." The panel implies that the students can scarcely be blamed. City life, jobs, and the makeup of the student body have changed almost beyond recognition. The student population, for example, is now 29.9% black and 17.5% Puerto Rican. The schools' curriculum, however, is not very different from what it was 50 years ago. Above all, the youngsters expressed a feeling of "depersonalization...
...overripe style of the worst pseudoepic Russian film making. The Red Tent (so titled for the makeshift shelter in which the survivors took refuge) at no time does justice to the drama of the subject. Finch and his crew are continually threatened by starvation and frostbite, but sheer boredom somehow seems a more likely fate...
...invented? As a lover, as well as a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Steiner knows rape when he sees it, and he sees it. The Nazis abused German almost to death, he argued in Language and Silence. In Extraterritorial, he warns that a more current threat, "the drift and boredom of semiliteracy" -man's marriage of convenience to his words, threatens to crush the life out of all civilized languages...
...prune paste. Yet as the mission continued uneventfully day after day-first past the American endurance mark of 13 days set by Gemini 7 in 1965, then past the Soviets' own record of nearly 18 days established by Soyuz 9 last year-the initial excitement turned into boredom...
...bullfrog-in-a-barrel baritone: Hildegard Knef came sauntering out of rubbled Berlin to become an international star -for the U.S. a sexy fraulein figure renamed Hildegarde Neff, for Germany a second and more controversial Dietrich. And here it is: the expectable show biz autobiography. But not the predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect gossip, though. Knef writes...