Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like every well-bred young lady, Emily spent much of the year at house parties, expected to display her charms to eligible bachelors. Emily was bored to death; to kill time and tedium, she took to botany. One day she overheard staid old Lady Ampthill discussing this choice with Sis ter Betty. The result is a dialogue of priceless, period perfection: Lady A.: Did you see the flower show at the Temple? It was so beautiful, such lovely begonias...
...words that Congressmen speak in debate are duly entered in that chrestomathy of tedium, the Congressional Record, then laid aside to gather dust and oblivion. But a fortnight ago, the words of a former Congressman were remembered, and they helped solve a problem for the Senate committee considering whether to censure Joseph R. McCarthy...
Also deserving special recognition were the costumes by Leslie Van Zandt and the make-up by Jack Stein. Both were rich in concept and boldly executed. Caldwell Titcomb's music is also excellent, almost covering the tedium of a few scenes...
...second act there is nothing. No jokes, no clever lines, not even significant exposition. We find that the demonstrative couple has moved into a poorly furnished 9cheap, ill-constructed set) new apartment and that the former neighbors have moved in, too Thus we have pushed through forty minutes of tedium to the point of the act One curtain...
Contributing to the tedium of The Prescott Proposals are other weaknesses. It is, for example, rather difficult to accept Mrs. Prescott's proposals, that the United Nations examine and try to extend areas of agreement, rather than concentrate on areas of disagreement, as holding out promise for "the saving of Western Civilization." Yet only by seeing the proposals as immensely significant, can the audience be very excited by the threatened ruin of the plan when the Czech U.N. Delegate and former lover of Mrs. Prescott inconsiderately drops dead in her bedroom. Nor without accepting the importance of the proposals...