Word: tedium
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ANDY WARHOL, who struck out boldly into the high and far-off hinterlands of tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...
Harvard has tentative plans to take the tedium out of registration next Fall...
...second time in my life I have made a fundamental change in activity. Although the work [of a Federal Judge] at times has elements of drudgery, tedium, and loneliness, it does have significant compensations. The cases are clear and substantial. One is brought back to the research and scholarship aspects of his profession, and one participates, in a way, in the law's development...
...dramatic tension. One of the three obstreperous spectators carried from the courtroom last week bit a bailiff's hand, but for the most part even the antic outbursts have deflated. Some time in the next couple of months the jurors will have to sort through the tedium and the hijinks to confront one crucial question: whether they believe the prosecution testimony of undercover agents who swore that there had indeed been a conspiracy to incite riots. The verdict will depend far more on that than on any witnesses for the defense, real or technical...
...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...