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...beer nobility, noting decreased sales of beer; attention was called to diversions, including the do-it-yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of Americans. Such diversions, it was suggested, could account for less dependence on alcoholic drinks for relief from boredom. This is evidence that Americans are not being led into debauchery by prosperity and the five-day week...
...occupational hazards of war, perhaps even greater than boredom, danger or fear, is the compulsion to write novels about it. Victors are apt to be spoilsports who decide that victory was less important than the fractures suffered by their fragile psyches (The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity). The losers wryly argue that they were pushed around in a brawl they never made (All Quiet on the Western Front). As two-time losers, Germans have become experts in the blues of defeat. The latest sample to reach the U.S. is Gerhard Kramer's first novel, We Shall...
...When the boredom became intolerable, Goodie cracked jokes from the chair and interrupted debate to address the galleries. "Ladies and gentlemen," he sometimes boomed with the aplomb of a circus ringmaster, "I want you to know that just because your able and distinguished Senators down here are sitting with their feet on their desks, reading newspapers, it does not mean they do not know what is going on." "They Also Serve . . ." Such horseplay earned Goodie his reputation as a jester. But the job of heir-apparent to the governor was almost too much for his patience. Once, in a mood...
Before anyone ran out of hoked-up records, the Dodgers set an early-season mark that took the boredom off every sports page. They won ten straight games, ran down the world champion Giants, breezed by the feeble Phillies, and tripped up the faltering Pittsburgh Pirates on the way. No major-league team had shown more early foot since the National League New Yorks of 1884 took twelve in a row (and stumbled home in a fourth-place...
Between percussioned boredom in the suburbs and rural depravity in the South, All in One offers Paul Draper's clean and stylish tap dancing. Draper seems to have grown more versatile, particularly on the satiric side; but what remains uniquely his is the tapping to classical themes, the suggestion of ballet grace...