Word: humdrums
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...then, you want to be amused stay away from the Hollis. If you want to be depressed and have a most excellent view of a humdrum, small town, existance go to see "Next Door...
...told him, and he went away." The Irish literary school has its great men: soft-voiced, indefinite Yeats, grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing the Woolworth Tower and a mystical little joke making faces from a subway turnstile. A great poet and a great personality. May he stay long and return often...
While she sings, this humdrum scullion...
...present and future of Albania are, indeed, bright as an inexhaustible spring of controversy, and it is unlikely that this busy little state will allow the Balkans, to relapse from the front page. Other states may fall in line with the humdrum task of self-government and industrial development, but Albania will always stand by the ancient and honored ideal of self-determination by the sword. The new-fangled ideas of democracy and representative government may vitiate the national character of neighboring countries, but Albania is resolved to uphold to the last man the Balkan ideal of confusion, poverty...
...where she bickers and batters him into revolt. He deserts to the easier confines of debauchery, finally is shot by the shrew. The scene reverts to the theatre. It has all been a play. The shrew is reduced to tearful penitence and they depart, presumably to a life of humdrum harmony...