Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ennui could be dispelled if the course followed a program it developed two years ago for its better students. Middle-group sections on topics like "Exposition and Scientific Methods" and "Exposition and Autobiography" have been over-applied, well-taught, and successful...
...stubborn, even violent individualist. Smug paternalism at home did not wear nearly so well as posturing abroad. The Gaullist panoply gradually began to enshadow and constrict every aspect of French life, from politics to morals, painting to fashion. The rhythm of French existence perceptibly altered. Hints of ennui crept in?and boredom has always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long as two years ago, Yale Professor Henri Peyre, an astute France-watcher, sensed that the French, after "a prolonged...
...will be an exciting and spirited contest right up until the last." Nixon did his bit to support the first half of his prediction by attracting an impressive total of 502,000 votes in the Indiana Republican primary, where his only opponent in the uncontested race was G.O.P. ennui. Nelson Rockefeller was trying manfully to supply the excitement elsewhere...
Fighter Through the Mouth. The novels are almost naive in their simplicity. The Beach is an incident involving the tug of war between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through...
...Beauvoir, are the worst kind of illusion; reality is bile. Yet on the very last page, there seems to be a smidgen of vague hope, at least for the children-maybe. That is small compensation for a novel that is distinguished otherwise only for its predictable course and Gallic ennui...