Word: tediousness
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...have been purged, and some have been exiled to the hinterlands. The ironic result is that the regime has been forced to hire nonpolitical technical and professional men for the choice jobs formerly saved for party members. The purge brought at least one other improvement: an end to the tedious weekly Communist pep talks formerly required in every factory and business establishment. The party rank and file, presumably, is still too weak to be entrusted with propagandizing...
...Patchen is pretty erotic: sex cooked well. Here's where the world looks good, where all is clean and warm and endless. If the particular "not wholly unrewarding hour" you choose suits, his erotic stuff will appeal; yet it so much celebrates obvious things badly that it is tedious...
...come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...
...such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears, and only occasionally, thanks to Shirley's skill, do they draw laughter. Their play is every bit as tedious as it is unpalatable...
...scholar needs are his pencil and paper, a quiet place of study, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with men who are at a similar level of scholarship. The emphasis is different depending on the individual member. For some, the Institute affords a few years' freedom from the tedious requirements of class schedules, of conferences for students, and of faculty meetings. For others, the Institute is a place where the young, post-doctoral student may further his knowledge through association with the professors and fellow members of the academic community...