Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a fan's viewpoint, it was the most tedious game of the season, but it was enough to keep intact Harvard's perfect ECAC (11-0) and Ivy League (6-0) records, as the Crimson skated to an easy 4-2 victory over a docile Dartmouth squad last night at Watson...
Horowitz was happy there. He enjoyed the long hours of mindless work, and still does today. "Science is far more tedious than people realize," he says. "But I have a high boredom threshold, and a low thrill threshold. Looking through a telescope might sound exciting, but you're not watching galaxies explode. There are very exciting times, but those times are few and far between. You have to be happy in between...
...concentrated more on only one or two productions, carefully analyzing the dynamics of the collective creative process that lay behind a particular play, he might have provided some more insight into the way a hit musical is mounted. As it is, he has included just enough detail to be tedious, but not enough to be interesting...
...family interrelationships--A Long Day's Journey Into Night. In that play the characters are just as complex, but their relationships are consistent and well-defined. And the web O'Neill weaves there is far more delicate than in More Stately Mansions, where virtually every nuance is exposed in tedious dialogue. Most important, we know and understand the Tyrones much better, and therefore sympathize with the problems that beset their family...
Busy Interest. The answer is that it has been changed beyond recognition as part of an attack on an international labor problem: the growing dislike that today's young, comparatively well-educated workers have shown for tedious, repetitive factory jobs. In the U.S. and other countries, that attitude is reflected in heavy absenteeism and high turnover among factory work forces, poor-quality production and occasional strikes by workers desperate to get away from the line for a while. Volvo's system at Kalmar is attracting worldwide attention as an imaginative effort to set up a factory that will...