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September 4--I wonder if the Volunteers who do this work full time feel, continously, the boredom, discouragement, apathy and alienation I feel in this village? I find I'm sleeping about 11 hours a day. We tour the village for an hour and a half every morning and night. Aside from that--nothing. On the rare occasions when I hear two people in the village speaking French I have a leap of recognition and pleasure, as if it were my native language...
...were going to need additional capital to keep going. Somehow, Tarr and company found a New York firm--Data Processing, Inc.--who agreed to support them financially. Tarr and Crump had been joined at the end of the spring by Ginsburg, who had dropped out of Cornell ("Out of boredom," Tarr says) during the spring term. By mid summer, Vaugh Morrill had lost interest and had decided to leave the corporation. Therefore, under the present arrangement, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg are the three principle stock holders...
...throughly discussed already, Granted, some whites join the struggle because they see the Negro as the Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some seek an escape from the boredom of affluence, or the puritanism of the middle middle class, or the rootlessness of suburbia, etc. For Zigmond's detached approach to yield significant observations, it must proceed further than he takes it; it must attempt a complete analysis of the psychology of the white volunteer, at various levels...
Clearing the Skin. The East Coast extension of folk rock is represented by the husband and wife songwriting team of Cynthia Weil, 24, and Barry Mann, 26. Their latest effort, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, recorded by the Animals, expresses a hoped-for freedom from the boredom of meaningless work. In Home of the Brave, they speak out for the right to wear long hair...
...Laurence Harvey) from the advertising world, wins modest renown as "the Happiness Girl," promoting "chocolates with fairy-tale centers." Her own fairy tale ends, many escapades later, when she finds ruin at the top as the wife of a wealthy Italian nobleman. Mistress of a sprawling palazzo, she endures boredom, fame, and neglect-despising the suffocating luxury of a milieu that has nurtured and, at last, enslaved...