Word: tedium
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...were sick of the "serious" theatre--of playwrights who make love to their anguish; of sonambulists gurgling from garbage cans; of semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...
...critic once wrote that nothing was more tedious than mediocre poetry, and tedium sits like a lead bat on this reader's shoulder. Aside from two good poems from Daniel Langton and a garbled experiment in sound by C. C. Abt, the rest of Audience poetry ranges a dusty spectrum from the merely interesting to the very bad. Four poetesses help anchor down the ends...
...hard enough to stay straight these days, and coping with the tedium of keeping safe only complicates matters further. May the University see the light, and may the light lead us safely home...
Raintree County (MGM) begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy. Montgomery Clift, talking through his nose and expressing sensitivity of soul by seldom looking other cast members in the eye, jitters through the role of John Shawnessy, hero of the late Ross Lockridge Jr.'s bestselling 1948 novel. Represented to be a kind of rustic, 20-year-old Candide of pre-Civil War Indiana, 37-year-old Clift goes lurching through a swamp in search of a magical "rain tree," supposedly planted years before by Johnny Appleseed. Whether the tree bears knowledge, truth or just...
...Tedium seemed to be growing so fast in TV that Cunningham's outfit tried to measure "the Boredom Factor" by depth interviews, found that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...