Word: tediousness
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...Long, tedious manufacturing and testing the vaccine for safety had delayed the trials so that in some areas they had to be canceled. In the Atlanta district, where plans had been well made in advance (TIME, April 26), two cases of polio, one of them paralytic, had appeared unseasonably early, and no vaccinations can be given where the disease has already begun its annual upswing. Other areas were certain to be similarly hit. Milwaukee decided to drop out because local health officers wanted to wait so long-to see how things go elsewhere-that there would be no time...
...Cash Cache" by John Limpert, although a little tedious in spots, shows what a Mosler impregnable, atomic-proof safe can do to the perishable thought of a spring morning. And the "Charles River," Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink...
...Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...
Bored with popularity polls, the New York Herald Tribune's records editor invited readers to submit lists of the five most boring "acknowledged masterpieces" on records. Readers responded with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan...
...variety must proceed from harmonies produced by the passage of voices and from little imitative figures as each enters. Austin's first canon produces lovely sonorities and a mood of serenity that help sustain its length. In the second, however, parts too closely spaced give the effect of tedious repetition. Although the others are better constructed, their novelty of form wears uncomfortably thin...