Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Wheeler, who directed both productions, has wisely treated Albee's script as lightly as he can. He has ignored as much as possible the overly-Freudian and rather tedious general indictment of the family and emphasized the destructively funny--and best--portions of the play. He seems to have lavished particular care on the many short caricatures of individual features of American family life, a fact which goes a long way toward explaining the success of the present production...
...thousands of students Langer will be remembered for the often terrifying, though never tedious. History 132 lectures, packed with Austro-Hungarian premiers, Balkan crises, and diplomatic notes...
...Yale University last weekend to receive the Law School Association's Citation of Merit award, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton waited and waited for other luncheon speakers to finish. When he was finally introduced, Scranton remarked that he had intended to give "a long and rather tedious political speech," but that there was no time now. So he scrapped his prepared text and spoke briefly off the cuff on the need for a vigorous opposition party...
...praised but not very widely read), The Spire is clearly intended as a crowning work. Like Golding's other books, it is less a novel than a kind of fable in which a thin skin of realism is stretched to meet a rigid allegorical frame. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious, it does not fully confirm the remarkably high reputation Golding now enjoys. But it proves that he has made himself the relentless modern master of two ancient and provocative themes-the loss of paradise and the sinfulness of man. At a time when fictional pessimism often drifts off into murky...
...years since he made his debut as a child prodigy in Warsaw; he can look back 58 years and 5,000 concerts to the day of his American debut. In those early days, his simple love of playing and his overwhelming love of life drove him from tedious practice, and for many years too many notes landed on the floor under the piano...