Word: boredoms
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From outside comes a peril more dire, if not more wearing, than hunger or boredom or claustrophobia. Nazi boots clump on the cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation...
Gertrude never got her medical degree. Once having admitted boredom, she stopped studying. After final examinations, her professor suggested summer school. Replied Miss Stein, "I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree, I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology and how all medicine bores...
Edmunds apparently tries to make a fair assessment of local literary life. But to compare i.e., The Cambridge Review to a student who flunked out in boredom is to forget the fact that, faced with the possibility of passing it on to incompetents, i.e.'s editors decided to kill it, believing an honorable death preferable to the senility they saw on The Advocate. And to say that The Editor is on probation and that Audience is a junior Phi Beta Kappa is to play with words. Edmunds says that because Identity is published by an offset process, the success...
...contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety" that the wastrel brings into people's lives. Loaf Sugar, by Konstantin Paustovsky, features an overbearing Soviet Organization Man whose mere presence "filled the air with weary boredom...
...story gets off to a brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South...