Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like that of the early-education consultant who claims that kids need "more time in the classroom." Quite the contrary. I felt that what our young son needed most was more time to play. If what he has ahead of him in later grades is the kind of education tedium that you describe, I wish I could redshirt him until he was 10. JULIE DAMPIER-COOK Linwood...
...this coming: because it's not really socially acceptable to be unhappy about happiness, the Carolyn Burnhams of the world can't really make any sort of change to it. How to cope? Why, by suppressing everything inside, be it good or bad-thereby further emphasizing the emotionless tedium of yuppiedom. After all, the first and second rules of Fight Club are that you don't talk about Fight Club...
...this coming: because it's not really socially acceptable to be unhappy about happiness, the Carolyn Burnhams of the world can't really make any sort of change to it. How to cope? Why, by suppressing everything inside, be it good or bad-thereby further emphasizing the emotionless tedium of yuppiedom. After all, the first and second rules of Fight Club are that you don't talk about Fight Club...
...week ago Saturday, the Governor could be found with Dad at the Ryder Cup golf tournament, having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...
...class as performance piece, Tatar keeps the lecture lighthearted and breaks up her lesson with intermission playtime. "At 'halftime' we have a trivia challenge-a two or three minute break usually centered on a theme. Once I had the Norman Bates trivia challenge about mothers. It breaks up the tedium...