Word: boredoms
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...movie on which he was planning to do a story. Weeks's wife and two small sons were waiting for him in Merrick. Steeil, Miller, Weeks and twoscore others rode in the head car, the smoker, some reading the night's newspapers, most of them sunk in boredom, a few sunk in sleep...
...Like It (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Theatre Guild) poses the same problem as country life for city folks: how to get the charm without the boredom. A host of modern inventions have helped turn the trick with rural life, but few productions have found the answer for As You Like It. It remains stubbornly bucolic, discursive and dawdling, with the poetry no real match for the plot...
Hardly had the excitement abated and U.N.'s normal boredom been restored, when the Russians this week announced a general walkout from all U.N. agencies and committees. The strike was to continue until the Chinese Nationalists were turned out of U.N. Everybody fluttered the rule books again. Not in months had the Lake Success croquet-ground seen such a scurrying of hedgehogs, such a squirming of flamingoes...
Back home, the boy continues to steal, partly out of boredom and partly out of spite. When Gerald threatens to beat him, the boy imprisons himself in handcuffs and waits to be killed. To Gerald he cries: "Nobody's ever hated me before, like you do." Gerald protests his affection and the boy. as if suddenly peering into the sickest depths of the soul, replies: "It's the same thing...
...some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface scepticism...