Word: boredoms
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...common experience for us is the wife who finds her husband staying out more and more. He may be interested in another woman, or just like being with the boys. So she fishes around in the cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of boredom, and the subconscious feeling that she is entitled to something, because she's being deprived of something else." For the army of compulsive eaters-from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won. Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses...
...trophy laden drawing room of General St. Pe, for urbane drawing room comedy, the other the bedroom of his nagging, hypochondriac wife, used for one climactic scene of hysterical bedroom farce. The play's conflict is between hysteria and urbanity, the passionate idealism of youth and the orderly boredom of old age. (The General says, "Life, Gaston, is one long family lunch, tiresome because it has to be performed according to a long established ritual, with initialed napkin rings, embroidered table mats, forks of different shapes and sizes and a bell push under the table. It is a game...
...most of Anouilh's plays, the ideas have more life than the characters. The old General, who tries to overcome the boredom of his marriage by reliving the glories of his military days, insists all the while that he has the heart of a young man. He has waited seventeen years to consummate his "affair" with a girl whom he had fallen in love with at a military ball. The young lady continues to wait faithfully for him, remaining a scatterbrained young virgin until she finally seduces and falls in love with the General's secretary, a young...
Combat &Command. His first years as a junior officer in a battlewagon and destroyer of the surface Navy did nothing to change Felt. Then, out of sheer boredom, he put in for flight training. From the start, flying became the focus of his life. And with his new enthusiasm he recovered the old drive that his mother had tried so hard to nurture. At Pensacola he met a pretty Alabama girl named Kathryn Cowley, and next day he wrote his mother that he had found the woman he was going to marry. A few weeks later he let Kathryn...
Three or Less. As the season went on, the A.F.L. developed a remarkable balance among its eight teams, thereby avoided the fatal flaw that killed the All-America Football Conference (1946-49), which was dominated to the point of boredom by the Cleveland Browns.-Even so, the A.F.L. averaged crowds of only 16,680, including a goodly number of free admissions (average N.F.L. crowd: 40,000). One bright spot in A.F.L. finances was the league's package TV deal with ABC, which doled out about $200,000 to each team-more, on average, than N.F.L. teams were able...