Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Educational is not quite the word it nor intellectual, nor documentary, nor esthetic, but with a subtle amalgam of these things, so-called educational television appeals strongly to what Garroway calls "a vital minority." The programs are sometimes tedious, with academic hairsplitting that would thrill a graduate seminar But from Pablo Casals' cello lessons to Photographer Ernst Haas's presentations on The Art of Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel...
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a tedious musicomedy apotheosis of Every-littleman, mimed with confident ineptitude by Anthony Newley. Comedienne Anna Quayle glitters like a diamond in this puddle of paste...
...Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra, with nine soloists, gave the North American premiere of a work that did not merit the talent and effort they expended on it. As the evening passed, Frank Martin's La Mystere de la Nativite, though occasionally--rarely--illuminated by flashes of beauty, unrolled as a tedious exercise in stylistic combinations and permutations...
...Chancellor Ludwig Erhard would be included in all discussions on the new government's constitution, clear indication that Erhard-West Germany's idol, and Adenauer's belittled foe-would very likely be the next Chancellor. Now it was up to der Alte to set about the tedious task of building a new coalition Cabinet that would carry him through the final months of his public life...
...every six American adults will be off this winter for what the brochures have promised will be "a heavenly holiday in the sun." If the adult is a woman, vacation preparation will have involved more than permission from the boss and the credit manager at the bank. Long and tedious hours in big city department stores and teeny suburban specialty shoppes will have gone into assembling the proper holiday wardrobe. And once on the decks of the gleaming cruise ship, out beneath the swaying palms or on the beach under the languishing tropical sun, her clothes will almost surely prove...