Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replaced by the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, which survived for five tedious years. While their fellow students rediscovered the political challenges of the World Outside, HCUA leaders fastened on the strictest interpretation imaginable of "undergraduate affairs" and proceeded to issue lengthy reports on the poor lighting in various lectures halls and the general perversity of university policy toward motorcycle shelters. To suggest the atmosphere surrounding Council operations: In spring of 1963 the sharpest debates centered around WHRB's request to tape the biweekly meetings. Last spring, the HCUA perished of boredom...
Speaking on "The South: What Now?", Carter also sug-tested that lagging interest in voter registeration drives will make progress in civil liberties difficult. Now that it is possible to register, he said, the tedious block by block of recruiting voters will be unexciting and less satisfying than earlier civil rights work...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...schools lack teachers who can integrate contemporary developments in the life sciences into a medical curriculum. If you are the sort of person who can't wait to start saving lives, be warned: during your first two years, you will have to put with an immense amount of complicated, tedious "pure" science, which you will certainly find irrelevant and unbearable. It's not easy to generalize about whether students benefit from the indoctrination when they get into the clinic in their last two years: some do, some...
With a wham and a bam, a sock and a pow, Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis...