Word: boredoms
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...alike have the feeling that the Peace Corps stories most often repeated are too glamorous, too glowing, too pat. Few of these stories talk of the day-to-day problems, the frustrations, the harsh disappointments, and the serious occupational hazards-as one volunteer put it-of 'dysentery and boredom.' In a sense, the most unsettling challenge the volunteer faces is his publicity. A generous world press has drawn an unvarying image of volunteers effortlessly spouting Pushtu, Swahili, or Tagalog, of volunteers winning legions of friends while transforming economies ... To sum up: while the Peace Corps...
...having one of his plays produced in Germany. You are asked to write notes for the playbill, like those for a symphony, and in them you can say, 'The second act slows because here I mix Theme A with Theme C, resulting in a pace that approaches utter boredom.' Then the audience studies the program and at intermission you can hear them saying, 'Ustinov is a genius. See! Here where he says it would be boring, it is boring...
...Henri-Francois Rey. A French bestseller highly praised by the critics, Pianos is a sort of Dolce Vita set on Spain's Costa Brava whose main characters-a schizophrenic journalist, a neglected teen-age boy and girl, a half-wit charwoman-move through their pointless lives battling boredom with promiscuity. Sample passage: "She led him to the bed, still keeping their lips locked. Vincent lay down. Jenny detached herself. She began to undress him, with sure clean motions...
...mechanical--but mechanically imperfect--treatment of Franck's Symphonic Variations by Steven Lubin '63 suggests that perhaps venturing away from musically established works might cure these soloists of their apparent boredom. There are at least two reasonable interpretations of this load of Franck schmaltz: one can play it through straight-forwardly, or one can indulge in a bit of lingering and slavering. Given my preference for the latter, I found Lubin's performance flat and cold. However, neither preference calls for an overly heavy bass, unclear technical display, a constantly underfed melody, and brusquely punctuated phrases; though Mr. Lubin provided...
...Cohen gave a fairly good impressionistic report of my speech. However two errors, one of sound, one of sense, crept in, all in one paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs...