Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directors (Hersey is president) which can turn Ellison or any other editor out, if they don't like what he is doing with their money and their work. The editor promises to "grant every man his right to be heard and seen, asking only that he not be tedious, treasonable, libelous or gross...
...operatic for Two Sisters from Boston (TIME, June 17). MGM's musicmakers scrambled through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
...third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian...
With it as its end product, Santayana's six decades of philosophizing may remind Christians of those tedious scientific experiments which in the end prove something that everybody had always known...
...system, far more elaborate, will do much more. It will guide the pilot down a glide path directly to the runway. At intervals, radio markers will tell him his position upon it. The new system will not only be safer but faster, reducing the tedious and dangerous "stacking up" which often clogs busy airports...