Word: boredoms
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...Sylphides, Mary Ellen Moylan was particularly graceful--she had the quickness of a butterfly. As one man in the midst of many women, Michael Lland appeared relaxed to the point of boredom, but he executed a few grandes jetes with case. Soft, pale green lighting enhanced the ensemble's movements, which, except for occasional bad timing, were precise...
MaCoy's aversion to boredom was quickly sensed by fellow correspondents in Korea. Week after week, he kept moving to different sections of the front, looking for the most active sector. For a story on a front-line neurosurgery team, he made the round trip from Seoul to Tokyo twice in one week, hitchhiking in military planes, in order to catch up with the unit's commanding officer and to interview the theater surgeon general...
...present circulation is 350,000, including 75 subscribers in Dubuque-Ross grew periodically bored, and the magazine occasionally suffered from it. Last April, he began to turn some of his work over to his editors, and stopped coming regularly to the office. But this time it was not boredom but something else. Last week, at 59, Editor Ross died in a Boston hospital after an operation for cancer...
...Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
Generations of boredom with the Latin and Greek classics have resulted in their virtual disappearance from the U.S. curriculum. Gilbert Highet, Anthon professor of Latin at Columbia University and a popular author (The Classical Tradition, The Art of Teaching) as well as a classical scholar, thinks that dull and stylized teaching is responsible for the students' indifference. This week, talking to the New York Classical Club, Highet explained his criticism. Teaching classics as "perfect books by perfect men," he said, "[will] make them inhuman and impossible for the young...