Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playwright who loves darkly the denotation, the connotation, and the sound of his words. "Tedium, tedium. . . tee-de-um, tee-de-um," Gielgud muses, and there can be no doubt about what he means and how he feels. Fry makes exuberant use of images, such as this description of a shooting star; "an excess of phlegm in the solar system coursing toward a heavenly spittoon." As Mendip himself says, "what a wonderful thing is metaphor...
Peaks & Valleys. All Muzak's industrial customers (General Electric, Ford Motor Co., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., etc.) use it for the same purpose: to ease the tedium of workers performing endlessly repetitive operations. "It keeps me from getting nervous," said an assembler in the Chicago Hallicrafters' plant last week. "And it makes the fellow next to me more cheerful." In Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank, where 300 girls sort out and count as much as $25 million in paper money every day, the officers have found that Muzak lightens their spirits and lessens their fatigue...