Word: tedium
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another year of our leisure time past. We want the In Memoriam roll. We want Dino De Laurentiis receiving the Irving Thalberg Home Audience Mass Sedation Award. We want the speech from the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We want that four hours of tedium, the better to set off that one perverse moment of total surprise...
...measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation (as compared with Europe's God-given minimum of a month) seem worth the 50 we have sacrificed to make them possible...
...tension of the election is succeeded by the tedium of cabinet appointments, it is time to focus on the more important ramifications of the result. No, not that messy missile-defense stuff or whether George W. Bush is going to get along with Alan Greenspan. I?m referring, rather, to the matter of style. What changes in the way we dress and have fun are in the offing as Dubya loads up U-Haul One in preparation for his Washington Adventure...
This is not your father's Latin, which was taught to elite college-bound high schoolers and drilled into them through memorization. Its tedium and perceived irrelevance almost drove Latin from public schools. Today's growth in elementary school Latin has been spurred by new, interactive oral curriculums, enlivened by lessons in Roman mythology and culture. "One thing that makes it engaging for kids is the goofy fun of investigating these guys in togas," says Marion Polsky, author of First Latin: A Language Discovery Program, the textbook used in Fairfax City...
...This is not your father's Latin, which was taught to ?lite college-bound high schoolers and drilled into them through memorization. Its tedium and perceived irrelevance almost drove Latin from public schools. Today's growth in elementary school Latin has been spurred by new, interactive oral curriculums, enlivened by lessons in Roman mythology and culture. "One thing that makes it engaging for kids is the goofy fun of investigating these guys in togas," says Marion Polsky, author of First Latin: A Language Discovery Program, the textbook used in Fairfax City...