Word: languishment
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...repugnant your actions are, they are acceptable as long as you keep them orderly and through proper channels. This is a pathological attitude, and the University suffers from it. It elevates rationality to extravagant heights, presuming that personal commitment, emotions, creativity and subjectivity can safely be ignored, allowed to languish, and be suppressed, and that you can have a meritocratic system based exclusively on analytic abilities and competitiveness without creating warped "successes." While we may not all be "Henry Kissingers on the make." in one way or another we personify similar characteristics...
...real villain is New York City's appallingly inefficient court system. In California, the law requires a trial within 60 days after arrest. In New York, defendants awaiting trial may languish in jail for months because the courts are so congested and the law sets no time limit. The congestion is partly due to aggressive defense attorneys, armed with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of defendants, who slow the process with pretrial motions on behalf of their clients. Still, there is no excuse for cases like that of one inmate: charged with murder, he has been...
...government tolerates only a narrow range of opposition; some members of the democratic left still languish in jail, including the prominent government opponent, Truong Dinh Dzu. There were no known Communists or Communist sympathizers among the 160 Senate candidates. While none of the 16 slates was endorsed by Thieu's six-party National Democratic and Socialist Front, eleven were considered favorably disposed to the government. The other five kept their criticism mild...
...know what is going to happen to the Earth in five billion years? How else could we encounter the blob or see whole galaxies destroyed? Does it not also fulfill a higher need-to find a myth of the twentieth century? Yet despite the myth-making 2001, we currently languish in a Science Fiction recession. The recession has become so widespread as to paralyze our space program...
White-marble slave girls languish alongside posturing tragedy heroines and cherubic children. Emanuel Leutze's classic, Washington Crossing the Delaware, looms in its full-size 264-sq.-ft. version. Tiffany lamps and cut-glass bowls of dazzling intricacy vie with gingerbread mantelpieces. At first glance the Metropolitan Museum's gargantuan exhibition of 19th century American art, architecture and decoration seems about as serious an undertaking as a rainy afternoon spent in grandmother's attic. On second look, it proves to be a well-planned, scholarly survey of an oft-disparaged, still underestimated century...