Word: tedium
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s very exciting because it’s a great big swirl of a movie and a story I’ve loved since I was 16,” Nair says. Despite the long hours and tedium of editing, she sounds says she is excited about the process: “We’re jamming, baby...
...theory, of course, extracurriculars should be the ultimate stress-busters. It is hard to think of a better way to unwind from the stressful tedium of Harvard academics than by having a game of ultimate frisbee, acting in a student-directed play or scribbling a few articles for campus publications. That idealized view of extracurriculars, however, bears little relation to reality. For many students—myself included—the Harvard experience revolves around serious participation in a chosen extracurricular (or, at the most, two or three of them). Everything else, from socializing to Social Studies, takes a back...
...Prolonged tedium punctuated with moments of high excitement," is how TIME contributor Lacey describes traveling with the 101st Airborne. There was plenty of the latter last week, when Lacey witnessed 72 hours of fierce fighting during an assault on Najaf. Residents were initially suspicious of the invading troops, says Lacey, but "when they realized that the Americans were staying and that Saddam was gone, everything changed. The outpouring of support has been incredible...
...democracy, it can’t be through a civics course. No one is going to buy programmed propaganda about democracy after seeing so much raw coverage of the war. Rather, we need to bombard the Middle East with realistic images of our legislative process in all its glorious tedium...
This is a long way from Saddam Hussein’s puppet assembly and Bush’s State of the Union Address. The very awkwardness and tedium of Congressional debates will help to convince the viewer that what they’re seeing is real, unprogrammed, open government. Just as it convinced the world of our military might, the unflinching eye of the camera can convince the world that democracy actually works...