Word: languishment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sympathizer becomes a political prisoner. Saigon says Hanoi holds 59,118 of them, while Hanoi says Saigon has more than 200,000. Whatever the true totals, neither side is ready to release political prisoners on the same schedule as the official P.O.W.s. Victims of torture on both sides, they languish in a legal never-never land, protected by neither the Paris Accords nor even the status of common criminals. Late last month, amid rumors that peace-keeping teams would inspect the notorious "tiger cages" on the South Vietnamese prison island of Con Son, Saigon set free 124 victims of "political...
...TIRED OF SEEING plays about neurotics. I admit, those lonely, childish people who languish in moldy O'Henry tenements still exist in fact, as well as on stage. Recorded by increasingly less able playwrights, though, their groping, screaming and shuddering is only faintly moving and scarcely distressing...
Lopsided. Marcos' harshest edicts have been reserved for the press and his political opponents, many of whom still languish in jail without any charges being lodged against them. Only three of Manila's seven television channels have been allowed to broadcast again; last week Marcos ordered others permanently closed. "It would be too unpopular to keep them all closed down," observed one Manila businessman. "After all, a television set is the biggest investment of most families." The only newspapers available are those that are uniformly pro-Marcos; censorship has increased the hunger for news, though not universally. "I think...
...final act enjoy the night air in the garden and idly talk of governmental forms an air raid black-out is announced by the housekeeper and bombs start falling from the sky, the first indications in the play of war. The scene is perfectly lit and staged: the actors languish about the terrace under Ellie and Captain Shotover who sit on a balcony above, and the stage is flooded with a relaxing, yet foreboding dim blue light. The mood has changed in this section: Shaw wrote it during the war, while the beginning of the play was written before...
...decision has become increasingly common. As a result, while many liberal arts colleges languish or go out of business for lack of students and money-at least 300,000 college openings for next fall are still vacant-vocational schools are booming. Among the chief beneficiaries are the nation's 9,000 "proprietary" schools, so called because they make profits for their owners. In ten years, they have grown to about 1,000,000 students, about 10% of the U.S. population enrolled in higher education. Their business now totals an estimated $2 billion a year...