Word: boredoms
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Fresh from the Mint. Dulles resisted any temptation to preen. "There he sat," said one British diplomat, "listening to men put on record what he and everyone else who knows anything about the Soviets have known since 1920. But he never gave the slightest indication of boredom. He looked as though every word he heard had been freshly minted...
Whether or not the issue is brought before the Faculty's next meeting in May, he added, will depend on "how it is handled before then." One member of the University asserted that "our only hope is boredom...
...moviemakers picked up their own $850,000 tab. Biggest novelty: no commercials-unless the entire 105 minutes could be classed as one long plug for Hollywood. The show itself was faster paced than usual and was jampacked with world-famed faces, costly dresses, big names and little stretches of boredom. Full of arsenic and old spice on its big night of the year, Hollywood displayed carefree willingness to crack playful jokes about...
...best characteristics of written Patchen is his vitality, one of the worst features of spoken Patchen is his boredom. It's surprising because before hearing him read you'd think he was jumping all over the place while writing his stuff. The choice of poems on the record is a good one, largely because he leans on the chuckle-chuckle side and forgets this country's inevitable American woe. All of the "Limericks" are included, and they sound just as good, and maybe better, than they read...
...solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long novel than in a tight play. On the other hand, a craftsman working on Anderson has a nearly impossible...