Word: ennuie
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...almost brilliantly written at times. And yet I find that my taste for clever young authors writing clever little stories has soured just a trifle. Perhaps the last few months have had a devastating effect on my sense of humor, but I don't think so. It is simply ennui, for this has happened so many times before. If we will not measure out our lives with coffee spoons, must we then do it with bad scotch...
...park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...
...Sparkplug Joe Di Maggio's absence from the lineup for three weeks because of an injured knee. Others said rival managers, discovering that the Yankees were allergic to left-handed pitchers, fed them nothing but southpaws (lefties were responsible for nine of their 14 defeats). Still others suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind the league-leading Boston...
...should we not do likewise with presidents of the U. S., instead of sending them home to twiddle their thumbs, perhaps die of sheer ennui, or, even worse, to hatch up unsuccessful but embarrassing schemes to stage a comeback-as did Theodore Roosevelt and others? Grant, after two terms (1869-1877), retired, then made a strong bid for the Republican nomination in 1880. Van Buren, defeated for re-election under the Democratic standard in 1840, led the new Free-soil party in 1848. Fillmore, rejected by his dissolving Whig party, became the Know-Nothing candidate...
...their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters, a maladjusted comedian. If uneven Author Ryan ever tightens the whole of his talent to that pitch, he will have justified his bold ambitions...