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...Tedium. He invents mainly because he loathes tedious labor. A Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Berlin, he invented his way around Europe (selling the patent rights to support himself), finally decided in 1935 to settle in the U.S. because "per unit of energy expended, the returns here are the greatest." But he has not succumbed to America's clock-punching bustle. He eats breakfast late, often does not get to his office till 5 p.m., often quits work at 6, always drinks a bottle of burgundy with dinner to drive out any traces of tedium...
...that Miss O'Brien is a bad actress. She is a remarkably good one, with versatility, genuine feeling, and all the trimmings. The trouble lies in the basic idea of putting child actresses on the screen in big parts, an idea which leads almost inevitably to super-sanguinity, tedious tear-jerking, and a total lack of sex-appeal...
...step as nimbly as he ever did. The Berlin tunes and lyrics-from All Alone right up to the new You Keep Coming Back Like a Song-are as sweetly foolish and affecting as young love itself. The only real trouble with this big, pretty song & dance is the tedious plot it is hung on. Crosby and Astaire, seasoned enough showmen to know that nothing is really required of them except their standard suave recitals, treat the story to the offhand snubbing it deserves. But for 104 minutes it keeps coming back like a musicomedy plot...
...unanimously that little benefit would result from a students congress which chose merely to sound off on all the vexing problems of our times--that is, to become a sort of junior United Nations, with no authority but much fuss and fury. A far more realistic appreach to the tedious process of building peace would be to create an efficient, non-partisan international body which could begin to tear down the barriers, both physical and intellectual, that separate students of the world...
...Simon Elwes (pronounced El-wez), a young socialite painter who was visiting friends in Yorkshire, decided to have a look at the local ruin, Fountains Abbey. He expected to see a heap of charming and tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which...