Word: humdrum
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...they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...
...their frustrating and interminable war in Algeria, where cruelty answers cruelty, and heroism has its ugly necessities, the French have found one continuing source of solace: the dramatic exploits of a tough, leathery colonel named Marcel Bigeard. The son of a railway mechanic, Bigeard was a humdrum bank clerk in Toul when he was called up just before World War II. Today, a weatherbeaten and wiry 41, he is a legend...
...three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman...
...while he tried fire-eating again, but somehow lost his taste for that, too. Now a sober 22, Andy has sworn off both fire and steel for life, has a humdrum job as a packer in a pastry-mix factory...
...industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered rocket fuels...