Word: languished
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...still I languish, hope near jaded, Under-paid and under-graded...
Scholasticism is, of course, an essential conservative and preservative factor in society, but if a society continues to place most of its emphasis on scholastic elements it will inevitably head for stagnation. The creative element cannot be allowed to languish. It seems very significant that the English Department's announcement follows hard on the heels of the discontinuation of Fine Arts 16, Harvard's only creative painting course...
...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...news conference, sat up when Kennedy announced four of five projected pilot food-stamp programs for needy families in distressed areas. The food-stamp plan, after all, was Humphrey's baby; he had pushed it through Congress in 1959, though Ezra Taft Benson had let it languish. But Humphrey's pleasure faded when Kennedy failed to name Minnesota as one of the food-stamp areas. The President mentioned only Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. Humphrey quickly got on the phone, found that Detroit would be area No. 5, and set up a big howl. Never mind...
...elements, said the document, are inherently "unstable," hence not to be trusted for long. Speaking in Chinese tones, the communique assailed Egypt and Iraq, where Russia has been attempting to buy the favor of the governments in power with gifts and loans, complaining bitterly that local Communist leaders still "languish in torture chambers" in both countries just as in Spain and West Germany...