Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started an infant epidemic. Will Lord quit under fire, as he has done before, and slink off to accept a college presidency? In providing the unimportant answer to this unimportant question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type. But in telling his story...
...Right, Dave. We stand at the blackboard of the Sixties with a clean slate, so to speak. Today is a divisional point, a change of trains, a time of stock-taking, of personal inventory, of renascent hope, of rededication, of crossing over, of escape from tedium...