Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the techniques of student activism have changed, some of the problems that plagued the movement 20 years ago have not. Many activists in the 1960s "appeared to have no stomach for hard, tedious, daily organizing, no respect for and little contact with the people in whose name they claimed to be acting," wrote Thelwell in The Village Voice last March. Some students see similar problems with activism in the 1980s...
...Israelis are devising new ways beyond curfews, roadblocks and shop closings to reassert their authority. Palestinians who wish to see relatives in detention camps can no longer arrange their visits through the Red Cross but must go through the tedious process of seeking permission from the military government. Anyone applying for a birth certificate or marriage license must prove that all government fines have been paid, while Palestinians traveling to Amman must first traverse miles of red tape...
Ironically, the fine set and acting in this play almost manage to overcome the faulty script. However, by the end of the play, Peter Barnes' preachy threehour script, a very obvious parable about the evilness of human nature, renders the play incredibly tedious and painful to watch...
...great intellectual preoccupation -- as well as the thesis of her historical volumes -- is the random nature of history. Woe to the person who sees any order in the past; kaleidoscope is Claudia's favorite word. Effective enough at first, this aspect of Moon Tiger is overdrawn and finally tedious. A similar strain shows in what are by now familiar literary musings about the ancient stones and mysterious fossils around Lyme Regis. It is possible that Dorset should be cordoned off to novelists for a decade...
While his conventional rivals increasingly seemed tepid, technocratic and tedious, Jackson was fueled by that most elusive of political energy sources: true momentum. It was that quality, along with his popular vote lead in the primaries, that earned Jackson the sobriquet front runner. For the moment, the "rainbow coalition" was reality, not rhetoric, as white voters enlisted in the Jackson crusade to tear down racial barriers. Even though Dukakis handily won last week's Connecticut primary, 2 to 1, network exit polls gave Jackson roughly 20% of the white vote. This Tuesday's Wisconsin primary provides another tough test: Jackson...