Word: boredoms
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...show was at its best when Actor Vincent Price (Angel Street) read Saint-Ex's meditation on the Battle of France. ("Victory is a thing of action. . . . But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all, of futility. . . .") First reaction to Flight: favorable. Possible result: other chapters of other books on a new weeknight program...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
Among the offers he received was one from a Radcliffe girl who thought the bagpipes might relieve her boredom, one from the third Eliot House crew which wanted the coxswain to exhort the men with them, and another from Huey Livingston, the Scotch janitor of Memorial Hall...
Gloomy Sunday is a 120-year-old tradition in Mississippi. An 1822 blue law still forbids Mississippians to attend bearbaiting, cockfights, bullfights and any other routine amusements of a Sabbath. Sunday movies are taboo-to the intensified boredom of some 110,000 soldiers training in the State. They wander aimlessly up & down the dead, empty streets of Mississippi towns, honing for something to do, and usually finding it only in honky-tonks and back-street bordellos...
...adopted in 1939 (TIME, July 24, 1939), allows three minutes, 15 seconds out of every daytime quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize on the war effort...