Word: ennui
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Unfortunately, as the current revival by Manhattan's Phoenix Repertory Company shows, Barry was not quite up to the company he tried to keep. He lacked Coward's dry crystal tone, Porter's slyly sexy urban ennui, Fitzgerald's tender romantic imagination and Shaw's intellect. Barry's plays are a little like cocktail parties that have begun to wind down, leaving the guests more prone to hysteria than hilarity...
...break his ennui, Vincent resolves to go to Africa, to post-revolutionary Algeria. A leave of absence, perhaps permanent, from his academic existence. It is certainly a bad decision, and his friends try to dissuade him. He is merely running away, they say, things will be no different. Or: in Algeria, his white skin will be enough to brand him as a symbol of the very thing which he is running away from. He finds himself unable to answer their objections, but nevertheless, he goes ahead and writes a friend already in Algeria, who promises to put Vincent and Francoise...
...hearings resumed last week, even Senator Sam Ervin's investigating panel seemed to exhibit a certain distraction and ennui. To top it all off, after three days the major television networks, which had pooled their efforts on the live telecasts, voted 2 to 1 (CBS in the minority) to stop their gavel-to-gavel live coverage. Their explanation is that the hearings, now shifting into campaign ethics and funding, are becoming less newsworthy...
...imposition of the actual upon the ideal−became his guiding principles. As the Philadelphia exhibition happily recalls, he exhibited a Mona Lisa with mustache and a prized collection of dust. Sometimes he showed found objects under the punning name Rrose Sélavy; in a fit of ennui he invented a new art form, "readymades," prosaic articles given fresh contexts. One, a snow shovel, is labeled In Advance of the Broken Arm and signed by Duchamp. The other, entitled Fountain and signed R. Mutt, received a little more attention in its time (1917); it is an unadorned urinal. These...
...they are busy fighting. His mother, dyed cheap blonde, is overworked; fatigue has robbed her of her patience and made her shrewish. His home is cramped and dreary with dirt. His school teachers are rigidly middle class, authoritarian and intolerant; his classmates tell on his prankster efforts to escape ennui. Harvard Square...