Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike his fellow passengers on the 7:58 from Welton, Conn., Howard Carew is no middle-class striver. He commutes to a corporate job in Manhattan each day all right, but he has long since decided that the rat race is tedious, unrewarding and-most important-unnecessary to his survival. Howard does have a vocation, however. He lies for fun and profit...
MAKING THE CLOTHES that others wear is tiring, tedious, noisy work. A piece of clothing in a garment factory is divided into units of work: zippers, belts, seams, sleeves, button holes, facings. A worker performs one of these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...
LIKE AN OLD Time magazine, the recently exhumed grad student union only stirs up those who delight in the state and the tedious...
...disproving and dispelling the erroneous assumptions of psychoanalytic theory, Sherfey has presented us with what is least helpful in the quest for sexual enlightenmnet--a counter-mythology. Her statements are for the most part purely speculative and overtly feminist, and they contribute only to prolonging, rather than resolving, a tedious battle of the sexes. In the effort to proceed from sexual politics and polemics to knowledge, Sherfey's tack is a dead...
...Kovell is the model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken's endorsement of monogamy as convenient and hygienic...