Word: boredoms
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...unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled...
Also, while many of the complaints of boredom in English A will be eliminated by the weeding out of t hose men entering under the "Highest Seventh" plan through a September examination, the committee felt that the stress on composition ability alone in the September examination would probably enable some of those men receiving a grade of less than 75 on the college board examination because of deficiency in literary knowledge to successfully avoid English...
...script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
...THEY REVELED - Philip Wylie - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nine pseudo-people go through a summer of bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP - Richard Sale - Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites...
...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...