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...Enough Holler. To stave off courtroom boredom, newsmen covered each other. A columnist for the Cleveland Press, which is devoting at least two full pages a day to the trial, reported that Scripps-Howard Correspondent Andrew Tully, wheezing and coughing with a cold, made such a racket that Dr. Sam's brother, Stephen, turned to him in annoyance and said: "Drop dead." Replied Tully: "I can't. I've got to stay around for the hanging...
...Dmitry Shostakovich has been up and down the ladder of official Soviet approval. In 1936 his opera-Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was considered "neurotic" (its heroine committed murder out of boredom rather than in the interests of social progress) and was banished from Moscow. During the war his Seventh and Eighth Symphonies were, in effect, official Soviet masterpieces, although non-Soviet ears found them pretty thin stuff. But the Ninth got him into hot water with the party's Central Committee in 1948 (it "smelled strongly of the spirit of modern bourgeois music...
...Mexico in 1949 to shake off a series of mysterious headaches. There, surgeons removed a brain tumor and saved his life, but Palmer found him self blind. Though he earned a living by writing about Mexico for U.S. industrial magazines, he could not always escape the hours of empty boredom. "Friends," says he, "stop in to chat and read to you. But much of the time there's no one there." As the months passed, Palmer began to wonder how other blind people fare - especially the uncounted thousands of illiterates all over Mexico...
Annex social planners have taken one further step to insure their freedom from boredom. They plan to centralize the dance so that less "illegitimates" can escape...
April 1, 2000 is largely a symposium of Austrian history, art and culture, proving that the country, once having saved the West from the Turks, continued to save it from boredom and spiritual blight. The word "Anschluss" is missing from the historic review. But it is really quite a bit to ask that motion picture history be both entertaining and accurate. In the present case it is fairly amusing...