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...have read widely in Auden's poetry and prose, The Disenchanted Island is helpfully systematic. The book is full of important insights, sunk in the tedium of unselective research. But for readers who have not thoroughly considered the poems and important essays, this book may push in the wrong direction. It might be better, instead, to continue reading the poetry itself...
...beginning of the play, these three characters are left alone on the stage for thirty-five minutes of almost unrelieved tedium. When Nancy arrives, at the end of the first act, the play livens up a bit. Where the others have just one mode of expression, she has three--she giggles, she sighs, and she snorts like a pig. This takes about fifteen minutes to pall completely. In the last act she loses a third of her effectiveness by not snorting any more...
...attribute the tedium of the opening Suite solely to Bach would be unjust. The technical incompetence of the soloist, Miss Alice Kogan, a junior at Brandeis, and the fungoid dullness of the orchestral accompaniment are at least as much to blame. Because Miss Kogan persisted in breathing several times during each phrase with more than two notes, she fell behind the orchestra repeatedly. In the sections of episodic (i.e., filler) material which called for nonchalant technical display, her runs, arpeggios, and jumps simply lacked the facility to keep up with the orchestra...
Jerry Lewis may not be. ABC has given him two full hours (The Jerry Lewis Show) to appear on the network -live and largely unrehearsed-each Saturday night. The show is loaded with intramural cracks, tedium, desperate-looking guests reaching for laughs, mechanical dolls that wave their arms and drop their pants, additional tedium, and the apparent illusion that several million people want to watch 120 minutes of the scriptless life of a semi-educated egocentric boor...
Nomadic Novelist. Waugh's description of the tedium and terror of trench warfare is excellent, but The Early