Word: ennuis
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...making a "dramatic and magnificent and positive impression." To reporters he cracked: "I'm trying to get a minority report on something, but I'm not having any luck." Strauss joked about the joyous risk that the unusual degree of harmony might become a wet blanket of ennui at Madison Square Garden: "I'm not bored a bit. I might just sit in the background and drink a little whisky." In fact, with the nomination virtually settled, Carter will have to use some imagination to hold public interest...
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
...championship game of professional football annually produces more ennui than excitement. "Ball control" is the Super Bowl battle cry. Stay on the ground, eat up the clock, kick a couple of field goals, and take home the trophy. Super Bowl X may be more of the same monotonous brand of play. Dallas has a stifling defense-as both the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams found out in the playoffs. Pittsburgh (TIME cover, Dec. 8) merely has the best defense in the N.F.L...
Jaroslav I. Pelikan said he thinks the American people, like the Romans, have come to doubt whether or not the "future holds anything worth striving for," adding that when "ennui sets in, society atrophies...
Whether the hazard be death or ennui, where will these "civilian volunteers" come from? There is only one sizable U.S. training school for electronic battlefield technicians, and that is the military. During the Viet Nam War, the Pentagon trained not only its own intelligence units but also CIA and National Security Agency technicians in the arts of electronic-combat surveillance, and some of them may be available. Reportedly the American technicians will also have to be well versed in the use of "sidearms," which, in the Sinai, usually mean Uzi submachine guns...