Word: tediousness
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...Senate that provided much of the book's fascination. In A Shade of Difference onetime U.N. Correspondent Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself. But the reader who managed to sit through Drury's long Senate sessions with rapt attention is more likely to doze when the U.N.'s machinery starts grinding...
...English hit plays, London Producer John Fernald, 56, who is making his American directing debut with a stage adaptation of C. P. Snow's novel, The Affair, had a few pronunciamentos on theater in the colonies. On U.S. actors: "They lack precision." On Tennessee Williams: "A very tedious phenomenon...
...lost suburban business in a hurry by merging with established banks in Westchester and Nassau, they ran afoul of the Federal Reserve Board and Controller of Currency James Saxon, who declared that if city banks want to go into the suburbs, they should do so by the tedious, costly route of building new branches of their...
...chloro-plasts) from plant cells can carry on photosynthesis all by themselves. Using isolated chloroplasts from spinach leaves, Dr. Arnon and his colleagues found that they could study the role of light without being bothered by the other chemical processes that take place in the normal plant cell. After tedious experiment, they decided that when green plant pigment (chlorophyll) is struck by sunlight its molecules become so excited that they shake loose some electrons. And those electrons eventually help to form some of the basic chemical substances necessary for photosynthesis...
Next question: Who would boss the tricky U.N. interim administration? First choice of both sides was patient, professional Ellsworth Bunker, 68, who had vainly hoped to go back and relax on his Vermont farm after the tedious, five-month negotiations...