Word: tediousness
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...sciences need these courses particularly, for their ordinary departmental courses are, to the nonconcentrators at least tedious memorization interrupted by lab writeups and protected by prerequisites. As the Kaysen report showed this fall, non-concentrators will not take these courses, for they belong too much to closed circuit education that bars intellectual experimentation...
...important contributions in two fields: the training and recruitment of teachers, and improving the intellectual lot of the gifted student. In 1951 it launched its famous statewide Arkansas Plan to attract more public-school teachers by giving liberal-arts graduates one year of training and internship instead of the tedious mishmash of courses usually doled out by schools of education. Though Arkansas is perhaps too poor a state to carry on such an experiment successfully, the fifth-year idea has spread to more than 25 other communities and universities...
Sallie Bingham seems to be winning all kinds of prizes, including not only the Dana Reed Prize ("Winter Term") and the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize ("The Riding Lesson"), but also the Advocate Prize. Unfortunately, her vision of "Luke" has been choked by the tedious semi-genteel mannerism of her situation. As a result, this new story has almost none of the lure of "Winter Term" or the intensity of "The Riding Lesson." Just why it was given a prize is hard to discern, since it is not Miss Bingham's best, nor the best in the Advocate...
...finds the rough-and-tumble of politics a noisy bore. Once, during a particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta...
Donald Hall deals in much the same coin in his commentary on Ezra Pound's almost circle of order, his "introvert sestina." One wonders whether the subject is worth the bother. Hall's joke provides its own criticism--"When we are bound to a tedious conversation,/We pay attention to the words themselves/Until they lose their sense.." Roger Moore's whimsical dealings with a similar subject turn out to be fun, but that is all. James Reiger's piece on the fall of the Civitas (of Troy or of God?) may be intended as humorous, but the subject does...