Word: tediousness
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...result of its limitations, the Gazette can get tedious, and Lord is the first to admit it. She still giggles over a Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced...
Canning replied, 'You were brief.' 'Ah,' said the preacher, 'I always like to avoid being tedious.' Canning replied, 'You were also tedious.' So there is no absolute guarantee of success...
...complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen what my hand...
Galbraith did not lay out his career in tedious rows. Teaching, Government service and writing follow a cyclical path. As a university instructor he feared "that my superiority would not be recognized." He found ample acceptance for his expertise in public service and journalism, first, in 1940, as a Keynesian economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, during World War II in the Office of Price Administration, and then as an interrogator of Nazi war criminals and assessor of Allied bomb damage. Whenever Washington appeared to offer him an office but little to do, he returned to FORTUNE, where...
...monstrously difficult to pull off, and hardly worth the trouble for all but the most natural clowns. No one in The Three Cuckolds betrays any flair for knockabout comedy, so it's hard to understand why the director. Michael S. E. Kaplan, chose to haul out this tedious commedia del l'arte piece and stage it, of all places, on the Loeb Mainstage, which swallows up all but the most stylistically assured productions...