Word: uneventfullness
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Simenon exemplifies the dilemma that nearly any writer poses for a biographer: an outwardly uneventful life combined with a hyperactive imagination. Indeed, a Swiss psychiatric team that studied Simenon for a 1968 article in a medical journal pronounced him a fantasist, incapable of distinguishing truth from lies. In this brisk...
After reaching cruising altitude (35,000 ft.), many passengers took off their shoes, loosened neckties, reached for pillows and stretched out to sleep. Some watched the in-flight movie, Man, Woman and Child, a tearjerker about a married man suddenly discovering that he had fathered a son during an earlier...
He had guided one of the largest ships afloat through eight months and 46,500 uneventful miles at sea. Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he...
Many undergraduates hope this year's exam will be relatively uneventful. Last year a riot disturbed MCAT test takers at Boston University. During the most different part of the exam a hand began playing outside the test building. The noise increased and eventually a riot broke out and police came...
"I saw something," said Sergeant L.P. Eckert, "and sure enough it was the bear." The animal, which disappeared again, was Boo-Boo, the 20-month-old, 250-lb. black bear cub that belongs to Broadcaster-Sportsman Ted Turner, 43. Boo-Boo had escaped from the pen she shares with Yogi...