Word: tediousness
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...quite impossible to distill Joyce's monolith into two hours of speech and song and still retain all the thematic complexities, with their continual restatement in terms of almost everything in myth and history. Miss Manning has been wise in not attempting this, for the result could only be tedious and disastrously confusing. Her arrangement retains a circular form, opening and closing with the members of the wake gathered about the omnipresent coffin-cradle of Finnegan. She has made Shem the Penman spokesman for her piece, and although his antithetical brother Shaun is absent as an explicit character, he does...
Microbes could be happy if biologists thrived on publicity alone. For scientists can exterminate diseases only through tedious refinements, long after public attention has turned form such striking discoveries as the Salk vaccine. Although the vaccine still leaves 15-20 percent unprotected, the public is already beginning to think of polio as a "disease of the past...
With Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope sparking the show and Oldsmobile picking up the $350,000 tab (and spinning out tedious, long-winded commercials), Hollywood handed out its biggest prizes. Watching the 27th annual Academy Awards over TV (for the third year) from Hollywood and Manhattan, U.S. televiewers got lots of Hope and laughter in the 90 minutes, but few surprises...
Mendenhall feels those two results have more than justified Griswold's proposals and the tedious work by the faculty committee. "We're getting to grips with the problems," he reported...
Except for the war-period, when the Russians reintroduced folklore into their literature to arouse national patriotism, this basic Socialist Realism, with its tedious patterns of thought, has persisted. The basic philosophy of the Soviet Union is utilitarian--a realistic novel is easiest to read, safest for propaganda, and therefore the best. The Soviet Union is afraid of thinking in contradiction to the regime. A James Joyce or Franz Kafka would be unknown in Russia today--he'd be too hard to read, besides being called "intellectual-bourgeois...