Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ennui stems in part from the fact that many students accept job offers during the year; also it is then that for the first time the Law School allows them to elect their courses. Some third-year men are driven to taking College courses just because, of course, the College courses are supposed to be easier...
...proud and preening god. Nearly a century ago, Walt Whitman trumpeted: "I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with...
What an afternoon!... In the first place, there was the ennui. And such ennui as it was! A heavy, overpowering ennui, such as results from a participation in eight courses of steaming gravied food, topping off with salted nuts which the little old spinster Gummidge from Oak Hill said she never knew when to stop eating ... an ennui which carried with it a retinue of yawns, snarls and thinly velled insults.... The subject ought to be unmistakeable...
...Egyptian civilization that was greater, for nearly two thousand years, than anything before it, was almost spent by the first millennium B.C. The empire was shattered. The legacy of cultural greatness from the days of Ramses II was running out. Egypt was slowly overcome by an ennui that made her powerless to stop the conquering hordes of Libyans, Ethiopians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, who swept into the Nile Valley like a rampaging flood. But foreign domination for a time pumped new vigor into Egypt's tired blood. Sculptors gradually began to escape from the sterility of pyramid sculpture...
...very fact that we are in the atomic age defeats his argument. As more and more nations acquire the know-how and or the weapons themselves, the logarithm of danger will increase. We cannot be sure even today that "some 2nd lieutenant somewhere" will not out of ignorance or ennui press the button of our finality...