Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues but primarily on setting an agenda and other preliminaries. If neither side makes unreasonable demands, substantive bargaining could begin soon afterward. Despite the belated Russian response, Secretary of State William Rogers terms the Soviets "serious" in their desire to negotiate. There is reason to hope, then, that the tedium of setting up ground rules will be kept to a minimum and that the Helsinki talks really signal what Rogers calls "possibly the most important negotiations that we will be involved in." Even partial success could yield a more significant Soviet-American agreement than the 1963 limited ban on nuclear...
...weary Henry Cabot Lodge received his first cheering news in many days last week: President Nixon called him home from the Paris peace talks for a new round of consultations in Washington. That, at least, enables Lodge to escape for a few days from the dispiriting sense of tedium and pessimism that envelops the talks and the American delegation. Lodge would like to return permanently if he could do so without embarrassing Nixon. As the 37th session of repetitious dialogue ended on the same note of stalemate in the Hotel Majestic, one thing was plain: Lodge, 67, longs to retire...
...exactly as it is, and people as they are--not on stilts.... Let everything on the stage be just as complicated, and at the same time just as simple as it is in life." This is a prescription for utter naturalism; and, if followed exactly, it would yield only tedium...
...within the capsule more than 100 times, passing it through special filters. On earth, the precautions were equally stringent. Besides the astronauts, the only persons allowed in the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) were a doctor and an engineer. During the next three days, about all that relieved the tedium was a video-tape replay of the moon walk. The most interested viewer was Collins, one of the few human beings who had not yet had a chance to see that epic...
...tart-in the proper sense," he said. "I have no doubt she will steal all the notices." King Richard also indicated that playing Henry VIII might be the capstone of his movie career, which should cheer those who think his talents are wasted in films. "Much of acting is tedium for me now," he reflected. "I've suddenly realized that doing nothing is marvelous. What I'd like to do is appear in two plays-Sartre's The Devil and King Lear-and then just disappear from view...