Word: tedium
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...first place Koch assumes that children enjoy writing poetry because it gets them away from the regular courses, the dull routine of scheduled periods of reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, etc. Essentially, he exploits that institutional tedium without ever questioning it. His creative geniuses would probably not have done so well if, in sitting at the same desk all day, every day, Miss Blunt would ask them to take out their pencils and paper and from 11:45 to 12:00 (right before lunch when they're all dying to go out and play) write a poem...
...sixties, though, it suddenly became vogue to use films as a teaching device. In my high school, apathetic students and tired teachers banked their hopes on film, the new, fun, relevant medium. It promised to rescue us all from tedium. In history classes, especially, teachers began using films to replace the dry, outdated textbooks. Watching films became the painless way to absorb facts. But the films we watched were usually as boring as the textbooks we'd shoved aside. We watched films only to glean a few salient facts, and we never considered that films, as cultural artifacts, might...
...wants action. So baseball introduces the designated hitter, a bull moose who replaces the feeble pitcher at bat. The tedium of the old game is dramatically reduced. Fans stop bringing pillows to the ballpark, and more such changes are demanded immediately...
...wider. In 1972, women earned only 59 per cent as much as men. And predictably enough, it is the blue-collar women workers, who can least afford to, who have shouldered the lion's share of that inequity. And as Seifer details, they have shouldered even more--the deadly tedium of the only kind of jobs they can get, and their own guilt and their husbands' resentment that they are working...
Freshmen Congressmen roughly divide into two types: those who go it alone and those who join the team. Ford was definitely a team player. While more restless freshmen like John F. Kennedy avoided the tedium of the House floor as much as possible, Ford attentively followed debate and parliamentary maneuvers. In his second term, he landed a seat on the Appropriations Committee and became an expert on the defense budget, an intimidating thicket of statistics that most Congressmen shunned. "He had a tremendous capacity for work," says his half brother Tom. "And let's face it, people who have...