Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment he gets past the narrow entrance-examination gate. Since the accent is on rote memorization of facts, a student can always cram to pass a test and he has to be atrociously uninterested to flunk out. For rural youths, the excitement of living in Tokyo compensates for classroom tedium. Money is rarely a problem. A student can find board and room-the universities have few dorms-for as little as $30 a month. A curry-and-rice lunch costs 30 cents. He can meet his tuition and fees (about $40 a year in state-owned Tokyo University...
...fable that pitted the steady workers of this world against a charming drone. Naturally the drone wins. Alfred Drake played the role in his customary vagabond troubadour style, sans songs. Grasshopper was adapted from the Spanish, and the original play may just possibly have possessed something more dramatic than tedium recollected in tranquillity...
...else. The Poon uses the blackball system for elections, monthly dues are $15, and the Big Fun comes at the Thursday night dinners in the Castle, where the food-throwing might match that of the Three Stooges. Candidates seeking election must endure a hellish "Fool's Week," which in tedium can outdo any small college fraternity...
...graced with a compelling sincerity. Both were good on stage, and at times Miss Hawkins managed an intensity of voice and expression which lifted her performance out of the production. Had the rest of the play been done slapstick, they could not have had their poety. But what tedium while we wait for them to enter...
Introducing Idols. Bishop, himself a first-rate stand-up comic and successful pinch hitter for Carson in the past, could not seem to find his way. Using roughly the same format as Tonight, Bishop provided little more than late-hour tedium for viewers. His guests included Buddy Greco and Sonny and Cher. Debbie Reynolds talked about Girl Scouts; Danny Thomas kidded around to little effect. Everybody plugged everybody's newest picture, recording or TV show. Bishop introduced his rabbi and a priest, and kept referring to his jitters, which needed no introduction. Dragging his microphone into the studio audience...