Word: sisyphean
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...years my senior, but I truly believed she would outlive me. She was a proud great-grandmother of 16 and a serial troublemaker. She died on March 9 at 100. Few people believed Doris would survive the year when, at the age of 88, she began a Sisyphean walk across America to promote campaign-finance reform. Her lungs hurt badly, and her knees hurt worse, but after 3,200 miles, Doris was greeted in Washington by the cheers of thousands of supporters. Her bill passed. When she was 94, Doris unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for one of New Hampshire...
Taking time off is something Harvard does not easily let you do. Given the Sisyphean stress-cycle on which this college keeps us pedaling, it’s hard to do anything but focus but on the next midterm and to try not to get sick. Even once you make the difficult decision to leave, jumping through all the relevant bureaucratic hoops is an Olympic feat. I was still getting emails deep into October from various offices telling me that I still owed some amount on my term bill...