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...lagged behind nonfiction. It was a reversal of the usual order, but a look at the novels provided at least a partial explanation. The Costains and the Yerbys had their moments, but not the gaudy ones of old, and even the Du Mauriers and the Cronins issued invitations to boredom. British Critic V. S. Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack of commanding talent among the new writers...
...along with his drawers and socks while dressing each morning. Secretary General Trygve Lie, a ponderous, uncomfortable figure in blue, his hand plunged deep inside his coat, seemed a Falstaff, cast, under protest, as Napoleon. Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, presiding, wore a sleepy, slit-eyed look of boredom. Nationalist China's T. F. Tsiang sat with the uninterested look of one who had known all along what was coming, and finally appeared to be dozing. All except Tsiang had held such high hopes of Wu's visit to Lake Success. They would make a deal with...
Faint Click. One quiet, unseasonably hot afternoon last week, a burly White House cop named Donald Birdzell was reacting like a bear in a zoo to the rigors of boredom and the demands of duty. He paced. Then he stood before the Blair House steps, got his weight back on his heels and stared solemnly toward the street. As he did so a sound-a faint, metallic click-disturbed him. He turned his head...
...result is that the reader or audience sooner or later falls into the boredom of the overstimulated. If Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and possibly You Never Can Tell are excepted, the law of diminishing returns begins to work halfway through his plays. There are wonderful moments in Man and Superman and St. Joan, but comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question...
Most combat men of World War II saw only their tiny private areas of tension and boredom, explosively punctuated by sudden death. But cameramen in every theater were seizing the embattled moment on film, and artist-correspondents were recording bits of the war's hue and heroism on canvas. LIFE'S Picture History of World War II fits 726 such vivid fragments into a monumental mosaic covering every important aspect of the war and putting it all in sharp, balanced historical perspective...