Word: boredoms
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...faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that " 'I see' equals I believe,' " and this supports his idea about living intensely for the present moment...
Apart from their petrifying boredom, the one quality that unites both these musicals is effrontery. Her First Roman has the gall to take Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and suffocate it in dullness...
...federal grant the Boston Redevelopment Agency has received as part of an experimental urban beautification program, one can't help but suspect the city is really trying to drive the hippies away for good by giving them too much of their own medicine. If the attempts stay this tepid, boredom may become Boston's secret weapon...
Director, writer, scene designer and onetime actor, Franco Zeffirelli talks and acts like a mountebank, but he is a man of considerable talent and great versatility. "I am," he declares grandly, "the flag-bearer of the crusade against boredom, bad taste and stupidity in the theater...
Andrew Jamison seems to think that the Harvard community should be chastised for not submitting docilely to the spectacle of boredom and inarticulateness presented by Dietrich Wessel. It seems to me that Mr. Wessel's "history of German SDS" could have been better rendered by Michael Walzer in twenty minutes, or by a competent poet or film-maker in ten. Mr. Wessel was a failure as a rhetorician and as a disseminator of radical thought: that was the overriding reality of the Sept. 27 fiasco in Lowell Lec. He was simply out of touch with the mainstream spirit...