Word: tediousness
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...ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...which are unparalleled elsewhere in the University, are well known to everyone. A few have suggested the possibility of transferring the books and papers to the Widener Reading Room. Instead of an accessible library and informal surroundings, we should then be forced to obtain these popular books through the tedious machinery of the college library and to read the London Times beside a man studying the economic conditions in Germany...
...significance of this parade is that it reveals the efficiency of last winter's program of training. Though, drill in elementary operations tends to become tedious after several weeks of repetition, its efficacy is illustrated by the fact that every detail of instruction previously imparted was put to practical...
...been formulated to give the class and club crews an ending worthy of their work this year. A number of outside races are also scheduled and will provide an interesting variety. The races will be held in rapid succession, and will thus assure a freedom from the usual tedious waiting...
...prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble in Orange Blossoms" is badly constructed, failing in a convincing delineation of the leading figure and obscurely cramming the subsequent vicissitudes of the hero and heroine into an inadequate final paragraph. "The Other Voice," a play let, despite the excellent...