Word: boredoms
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...Tillman Merritt, head of the department runs the field efficiently and has quelled all internal disagreement. Administrative work limits his classroom time, but he will teach 152. Model Counterpoint, next year. His classes are partly redeemed from boredom by an outrageous and delightful use of metaphor...
World's hero is Hayden Chart, 35, an architect who loses his pretty, nagging wife Caprice in an automobile accident for which he blames himself. Ridden by guilt (but not very hard) and by boredom with his old life in Newlife, Colo., Hayden sets out for Europe to recover his lost youth and to learn some of the things they never taught him at Amherst-the glory of the Middle Ages, for instance...
...From Here to Eternity" avoids emphasis of one important aspect of Army reality: the repetitiousness, monotony and boredom. Since other authors hand pushed that atmosphere to the point of reproducing it, the contantly imaginative writing and reliance on action has more of a virtue than a defect. Certainly these are minor lapses, in a book that gives an extraordinary impression of honesty...
...swim to the rescue of a downed fighter pilot. Even on that level, the film develops little suspense. By applying realism to technical jargon rather than to such essentials as character, mood and incident, the picture never conveys the submariners' sense of danger, confinement and (except unintentionally) deadly boredom...
...Boredom Deferred. In Chicago, Mrs. Grandoline Yolanda Shalimar Pepper Scarlet Dellis explained why she fired four shots at her husband: "I'm an exotic dancer who's worked in every striptease joint in town ... I like an appreciative audience, and not even my husband can get away with falling asleep while I'm talking...