Word: boredoms
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...burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like a last-minute spoilsport. Were the play better or the philosophy more challenging, Guthrie's approach might smack of outrage; as things stand, it is perhaps the only armor against boredom...
...LEGACY, by Sibille Bedford. A cool, backward look at Victorian and Edwardian Europe, a time when the big rich were truly idle and upperclass life was dedicated to an endless battle with boredom. Middle-aged First-Novelist Bedford turns the cosmopolitan novel, a rare enough product nowadays, into an immensely entertaining remembrance-and indictment-of things past...
...children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti-intellectualism that dominates so many classes...
First of all, the security officials are on the whole second rate civil service or military personnel with no scientific training. And there is no prospect of improving the calibre of such employees because of the basic boredom and unattractiveness of the work...
...draw a crowd on the basis of showing this as a sex film, the management would do the audience a great favor by extracting the sex scenes and showing the ten minutes of "dirty pictures," thus sparing the audience the remaining hour and twenty minutes of uncomfortable boredom. The conscious eroticism of the love-making is the only faintly stirring thing in the film...