Word: tediousness
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...within the system, and (BAM! POW! SPLAT!) they did. Armed with the reform rules that McGovern helped to formulate, the young legions this year shattered political assumptions and shut down party machines that had been grinding on for decades. Through New Hampshire's bitter months, through the endlessly tedious precinct caucuses and state conventions, they mimeographed and telephoned and pounded door to door, living on peanut butter and jelly and spending their nights in sleeping bags on someone else's living-room floor. Their numbers grew with success; duty became dream became destiny; the impossible turned possible turned...
...wait until you are forlorn in late July, faced only with the prospect of another trip to Lamont or a tedious night at the pinball machine. Come to 14 Plympton St. tonight or tomorrow night at 7 p.m. to find out about the summer Crimson. The food is free. As is the beer...
...lots-including $4,250 for a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his "undeservedly beloved," a nurse named Alice Lockett. "I am," he wrote, "opinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy and so forth." He gave her a sample in his final letter: "Lovemaking grows tedious to me-the emotion has evaporated from it. This is your fault...
After a while you despair, as you discover that the junta is much more stable than you had expected. You start considering possible routes of action and slowly you emerge with only one alternative to collaboration: the long, tedious process of organizing mass movements in all walks of life that will eventually make it possible for the voice of the people to be heard. This is the approach that the most consistent of the organized anti-junta forces are taking. There is no lack of objective bases for the people to organize around...
YOUR BASIC Red-Blooded Post-War American Kid grew up reading science fiction. He sheltered C.S. Lewis's Perelandra beneath the edge of a junior high school desk; he tripped across decades of The Martian Chrnoicles on hot, tedious summer afternoons; he liked Kurt Vonnegut for years before Slaughterhouse Five became a best-seller. Then the world changed, and he probably has not read much science fiction since...