Word: boredoms
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Condemned to years of living death in Mzensk, the heroine commits three murders to relieve her boredom. The first Soviet opera, Lady Macbeth became a Red fad, was given more than 200 performances in Leningrad and Moscow. In the U.S., where it arrived in 1935, the opera was called flippant, noisy, vulgar and a hodgepodge of musical styles. Nevertheless, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk fascinated many musicians by its vitality, shrewd musical characterization, brilliant orchestration...
...also nearly ruined Composer Shostakovich. At the height of the Purge, when Russian nerves were badly frayed and people were plopping into prison like turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth. He did not like it, walked out before it was over. Murder from boredom struck him as a bourgeois idea. Besides, Stalin's musical taste runs to simple, more tuneful things, zigzags between Beethoven's Eroica and Verdi's Rigoletto. Also, he had a seat directly above the brasses...
...floods, striking porters, Beryl Markham decided to fly to London. A year in London taught her, for the first time in her busy life, how "to discuss the bore dom of being alive with any intelligence." So it was only a question of time until she would escape from boredom through action. She escaped by flying the Atlantic...
...Cruel and Barbarous Treatment, in a mere 20 pages, squeezes all but the last few drops of ugliness out of those elements of boredom, vanity, theatricality, sadism and cowardice which, if undiluted by so simple a thing as love, often destroy marriage...
...only a few objects in a case at one time. The theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years ago the Institute sent a former Anthropology 1 section man to the Arctic...