Word: boredoms
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...Realism" suggests boredom and academic stuffiness to our twentieth century mentality; yet, Rembrandt or Durer, prime realists, evoke quite the opposite reaction. These masters were realists, too, and they, as these two young printmakers today are beginning to do, made palpable the external appearance of things while revealing their essential nature...
...Hake's second in command, Lieut. Dolfus, and Lieut. Sulgrave, the commander's young aide, life on the island is a combination of boredom and premonition of disaster. The disaster is not long in coming; half a dozen enlisted men and Sulgrave are the only survivors. It is then that the Negroes get a grisly, ironic revenge on the commander. Looking for his body, they find only the head and shoulders. Into the improvised coffin go arms and legs, black and white, sufficient to provide a corpse for the military funeral Commander Hake is to get back...
...well be wondered if anyone longing for redemption has ever really been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...
...author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific erudition. "The one thing wisdom does foolishly," Stacton chisels in the enduring wood pulp, "is to overlook the power of folly." And "though women, like cats, enjoy boredom and derive great strength from...
...Conversing Travelers' Association. The Guardian triumphantly uncovered "what appear to be two facts about the association: it was formed at Letchworth in 1950, and it now has about 1,000 members indulging, as a matter of principle, in 'topical conversation with strangers of either sex to relieve boredom when traveling.' The association badge, with a copy of the rule book, costs five shillings a year. Once the badge-silver lettering on a blue background-is recognized, members are at liberty to start talking. The rules say the conversation is to be 'discontinued...