Word: tediousness
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...later; it simply embarrasses you. The best work is outrageously derivative; you suffer for Thomas Huxley or H.L. Mencken or Henry Miller or whoever was being imitated. The worst causes real anguish; only Harvard undergraduates could write so much oddly-arranged verse with obscure Latin titles or such dogged, tedious, unknowingly funny short stories...
...Least Tedious Performance by a Supporting Actress: to Designer Edith Head, who doggedly plays herself in a party sequence for a second...
...actors themselves were a pretty dreary lot with the exception of that brilliant clown Paul Benedict and the more-Aryan-than-Thou Larry Bryggman. Jo Lane was tedious in the virtuoso role of "The Jewish Wife" and Ted Kazanoff inadequate as the perplexed Judge in "Quest for Justice." Granted it was opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior...
...replaced by the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, which survived for five tedious years. While their fellow students rediscovered the political challenges of the World Outside, HCUA leaders fastened on the strictest interpretation imaginable of "undergraduate affairs" and proceeded to issue lengthy reports on the poor lighting in various lectures halls and the general perversity of university policy toward motorcycle shelters. To suggest the atmosphere surrounding Council operations: In spring of 1963 the sharpest debates centered around WHRB's request to tape the biweekly meetings. Last spring, the HCUA perished of boredom...
...tactics on Vietnam, the civil rights bill, and the wheat sale to Russia. "He seemed to have faded astonishingly into the background and appeared almost a spectral presence at meetings in the Cabinet Room." His Chester Bowles "dissipated his authority by diffusing his energy." His Nehru is a tired, tedious old man. There are also a surprising number of critical passages about Kennedy, some of them of un-expected bluntness...