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...skill he employed in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall with the wild imagination he showed in The Marmot Drive and White Lotus, he has tried to explore the collegiate mind, to understand why today's undergraduates are so hard to communicate with, so susceptible to aimlessness, boredom and rebellion...
...Boredom at Home Plate. From Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...
...explication, the facts and spice are secondary to the worries. There is almost delight in discussing the Corps' problems, mistakes, failures, in talking of the loneliness, boredom and frustration that are the primary health problems of Volunteers abroad. There is, of course, a catch. What follows is a description of what the Corps is doing to change itself...
Clarity or Boredom. In Mies's view, the new language began to be spoken about 1900, and it was first articulated not by architects but by engineers: "The most important idea in modern architecture is the skeletal idea developed right here in Chicago." In fact, it was photographs of Chicago and Manhattan steel skyscrapers under construction that inspired Mies's first models for a steel and glass tower. They led him to his skin-and-bones philosophy that structure was the probity of architecture and should stand clearly revealed behind panels of glass...
Wait Until Dark. A middling mystery thriller is rather like a war: 90% boredom and 10% terror. Wait Until Dark does not fight the percentages...