Word: tediousness
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...search for a temporary paycheck during Manhattan's tedious, two-month-old newspaper strike, many a journalist has settled for an unpleasant and unfamiliar job. But of all the compromises forced by the shutdown of nine dailies, none seems more awkward than the gravitation of typewriter-style newsmen to that rival and all-consuming medium...
...traditional Senate filibuster was tedious, to be sure-relays of Senators, hour after hour, croaking hoarse-voiced recitations of the glories of Southern recipes or readings from reference books. But the filibuster could also be dramatic, full of tension and conflict and suspense. By keeping the Senate in session around the clock, the majority tried to wear the filibustering minority down in an ordeal of exhaustion. Cots were set up in the Senate cloakroom, and bleary, rumpled Senators stumbled from them to answer middle-of-the-night quorum calls...
...discovering a big canvas. It was the most exhilarating writing experience I ever had." Updike, who is a miniaturist, calls Roth's novel "overblown," but what limits the book to partial success is not its great size. Rather it is Roth's treatment of his hero, a tedious young English instructor who looks within himself and finds the world empty. Roth chose to write of this frail spirit in the first person, and trapped himself by accepting the instructor's lugubrious self-assessment...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--.(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you. I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Talk to me. Is that so much...
Educational is not quite the word it nor intellectual, nor documentary, nor esthetic, but with a subtle amalgam of these things, so-called educational television appeals strongly to what Garroway calls "a vital minority." The programs are sometimes tedious, with academic hairsplitting that would thrill a graduate seminar But from Pablo Casals' cello lessons to Photographer Ernst Haas's presentations on The Art of Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel...