Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italians, like the French, are fearfully somber about their soulless, hellbent young-who, if a succession of tedious new-and old-wave films are to be believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--. (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C--a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you. I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Talk to me. Is that so much...
...Track Trouble. With the bankers' encouragement, stockholders of the two roads are expected to approve the merger at the annual meetings in May. Approval from the sympathetic Interstate Commerce Commission will come-if ever-only after tedious deliberations in which town after town will object to losing tax revenues from consolidation of Pennsy and Central terminals. Still another hur dle lies in the attitude of Justice Department trustbusters, who have taken no position so far but who might argue that the sheer bigness of the merged railroad would outweigh the fierce competition it would face from trucks, airlines...
What automation did for production workers in 1961 was to abolish much of the dirty and drudge work-the tedious, boring jobs that proliferated after Henry Ford's assembly lines in 1913 began to replace craftsmanship with mass assembly. In steel mills and chemical plants, yesterday's blue-collar worker now wears white overalls, sits at a pushbutton panel as massive as a cathedral organ, and takes home a technician's fat pay envelope. What computers did for clerks was to eliminate the menial paper shuffling, permitting people to spend their energies on more creative and profitable...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCULPTURE, with text by J. Edward Kidder Jr. (328 pp.; Tuttle; $27.50). A large, well-illustrated historical survey; the photographs, most of them black and white, are superb, and the compilers have broken up what might have been a tedious procession of figures with excellent detailed closeups. The subjects, of course, run to delicate, serene Buddhas and wrathy temple guards, and they are delightful...