Word: tediousness
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...rocket ship easily enough, then gets into trouble with the girls because of his X-ray eyes. In Blind Alley, rich and nostalgic Mr. Feathersmith hires the devil to restore the home town of his boyhood, but soon realizes that life in good old Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend: it is a fairly quiet story of a psychiatrist's effort to keep a fantastically high-I.Q. teen-ager on an even keel...
...lengthy communication to the Council, Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews and vice-Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said they "read with interest the resolution of the Cambridge City council," but that they feel that raising the ironclad would be a "long, tedious; extremely expensive" process, impossible to undertake at this time. But Councillor Foley told the CRIMSON that he still wants to raise the Monitor and moor it on the Charles River. Other Council members concurred...
...American Patriots, issued the following statement last night: "We (the American Patriots) are deeply disturbed that the men who govern our naval affairs today have so little devotion to the traditions and history of this great country that they balk and whimper that the job might be tedious. American Patriots feel as ever that no expense and no effort must be spared The Monitor must be raised. There are higher authorities than Secretary Matthews...
...spite of the brave attempt of director Temple and the cast, "The Roaring Girl" is often a tedious bit of theatrical fare. It is too strained, too contrived to be truly entertaining today. Long speeches come and go without conveying much meaning; a good deal of the famed Restoration bawdiness seems not so much bawdy as dull; and all in all, "The Roaring Girl" seems like a poor choice for the Brattle Theatre...
...include witty to catty personifications of a multitude of U.S. types. Copied mostly from Sharrer's snapshots of real people, they have the flat, posed and curiously weightless quality that snapshots do. Sharrer arranged the figures in her pictures after drawing them all separately, admits it was a tedious problem to squeeze them into some sort of composition. The results are cluttered, and made more so by Sharrer's inability to put a sense of space into her backgrounds. Yet the golden 5 o'clock light, perhaps symbolic of quitting time, that floods the center panel...