Word: tediousness
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This, as anywhere, demands thousands of phone calls, tedious interviews with hundreds of slow-talking, hard-to-draw-out officials, hours of checking directories and his tories, reports and papers. In a country in transition, the agencies of government are split and scattered. Besides half a dozen occupation headquarters, there are the German government at Bonn, special agencies like the Allied Security Board at Coblenz, various provincial governments, and the separate officials at Berlin. Gibbs describes Germany as hydra-like, with "the political head at Bonn, the cultural head at Munich, the indus trial head at Diissel-dorf...
Some of the difficulty is inherent in the play's structure itself. The entire first act is played by one person to another off stage. It is slow and tedious, dull, and unfunny. Granted that the off-stage dialogue would hurt a native American play, many of the comedy lines which must have been well received abroad are met with stony silence at the Wilbur...
...concert devoted entirely to the music of Bach can be either a very inspiring or a very tedious experience. Monday night's concert at Sanders Theatre came much closer to the former. The Cambridge Collegium Musicum opened its eighth season auspiciously with spirited, authentic renditions of four comparatively unfamiliar works...
...handicap of jet aircraft engines is the tedious, time-wasting process of starting them. It takes about five minutes for a crew of three in a jeep rigged with ten storage batteries for extra electric power to rev an engine up to starting speed. If a jet plane lands on a field that lacks the starting equipment, it has to stay there...
More poets should write their autobiographies if the one William Carlos Williams published is a fair sample. Poets tend to have greater powers of insight and of putting themselves across In language than the next man, and in autobiography this matters. So often an autobiography is a tedious catalogue of data about mother and father, their mother and father, the furniture in the old home, the trouble with pimples in adolescence and algebra in high school. Later the routine switches to particulars about women the author has slept with...