Word: ennui
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Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
...summons an alumnus from Europe, Bangkok, or Valparaiso to attend with his class-mates a few days of reunion near the Charles is latent in the man who sleeps obviously through the exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized...
Benediction in Georgia is a dark room in a prison. Near a table at the left a man in a frock coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...
...imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
...somewhat of an enigma: in many cases a terrifying specimen, reared in an age when old ideals are being ruthlessly shattered to make way for new. It is dangerous to generalize and especially so in referring to children: nevertheless this, the youngest generation, is betraying an alarming sophistication and ennui to the extent that parents are wondering what will be able to please their children when they have reached maturity. The child is definitely taking the form of a Problem...