Word: boredoms
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...rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers has fled 40 miles away to an armed camp at Rocher Noir...
...forgotten boredom...
...full of baloney," grumped Holifield. "You try to talk to them and they just repeat what they've been told." With demonstrations and proclamations-and also with moderate voices and measured argument-students across the nation are astir with a new enthusiasm, and in the process the anemic boredom voguish in the '50s has disappeared...
...while there is a marvelous incoherence to it all. The slobs and the ridiculously gorgeous girls they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance...
...meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun does not pretend to great academic excellence. Instead, it wants to give a boy "the ability to follow out what he believes to be the right course in the face of discomfort, hardships, dangers, mockery, boredom; skepticism and impulses of the moment"-useful training for anyone, let alone a future King...