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Glaser claimed that people take drugs out of boredom. "There are people in the U.S. who are making money as entertainers by doing nothing but taking manure out of a barrel and throwing it at you.... Drugs don't make you smart, they don't necessarily make you happy, you can die from them, they cost. So what? They're there and they do something...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Lenny Glaser Attacks Narcotics Laws | 4/22/1963 | See Source »

Having survived last week's struggle with Army, the Crimson track team now faces three weeks of boredom until they meet with the Heptagonals on May 11. The fact that Dartmouth is visiting Cambridge for a meet today at 2 p.m. will not appreciably lessen the boredom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Meet Dartmouth; Indians Missing 2 Stars | 4/20/1963 | See Source »

Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Mary Kincaid. an Ann Arbor housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Gallic Comic | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...These students relate a quite different picture of Interim life. "The whole thing is a farce," said one. "The girls here just play bridge a lot, talk a lot, read a paperback or love comic. Ski on weekends. For most of us, it's three weeks of boredom...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

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