Word: tediousness
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...sets the mood with chapter headings that consist of fine, nostalgic bits of flotsam from the Bissell memory (e.g., "No knowledge of music is necessary, merely place kazoo to lips and hum your favorite tune''1). His love scenes, which he plainly relishes, are never tedious. ("'The question is,' I said into the sweet smelling hair, 'whether a man of my age could become a Hotel Executive without any previous training. Your hair smells like springtime in Comiskey Park.' ") And the conversation around the plant sounds almost as if it had been taken down...
Buyers live at a phenomenally fast pace, performing a dynamic and fascinating function. The starting pay is low, and the training period is tedious, but 18 months will make a man an assistant buyer, and sometimes another 18 months make him a full buyer. With companies hiring one buyer for every 50 employees, advancement is rapid...
...exams, which usually start about the twentieth, also present a tedious blockade to Easter with the family. If the spring recess were only a month before finals, (Easter will be on April 25 in 2038 A.D.), students would have a scant three weeks of cramming before the exam period. Yet incredulous as it is, some students have done admirably with only two weeks before January exams...
...Books. Politically, says Orwell, he wrote "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism." But where such a stand, in the case of another writer, might be trivial or tedious or pompous, Orwell made it into a passionate starting point from which to scourge all varieties of intellectual cant and hypocrisy. He denounced the Blimps who failed to see that Mussolini and Hitler were enemies of freedom, and he denounced the intellectuals who thought Stalin was any better. Much of his energy was devoted to carrying on a guerrilla campaign against the woolheaded fellow travelers who were poisoning English intellectual life...
...lace curtain of gentility and poured satiric wrath on the American Yahoo-but later he failed to realize that the fight he had fought was over and won. In his articles he kept shadow-boxing at opponents he had knocked out years before, and perhaps it was this tedious concentration on the bogies of his youth that made his later books seem like watery rewrites of his best work...