Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack the teacher shortage, the Ford Foundation has spent another $15.6 million on two vibrant experiments: "Intern" college-student teachers and "teaching teams." By practicing in nearby schools, interns get enough credit to skip a tedious year of postgraduate study. And often they join teaching teams (being tried in Baltimore this year) that could solve a big problem: the discouraging salary ceiling that a teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary...
...Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending not with a bang, not with a whimper, but merely in a blur...
...Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...
Manhattan's Grove Press marshaled Critics Alfred Kazin and Malcolm Cowley to defend the book at a preliminary hearing. Both bookmen discussed Lawrence's somewhat tedious and dated story of a gamekeeper who played round games with the lady of the manor, pointed out its philosophical overtones (nature v. civilization), granted its explicit language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions...
Although discussion became rather tedious towards the end of the session, several important issues were raised. No decision was reached--since the meeting was intended as an educational one--but it was evident that all aspects of the situation were being considered. Further discussion is expected at next week's meeting...