Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class: the pensive man driven to distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...
...ordeals. Aspiring doctors must first survive the pressure cooker of a sleepless year of internship, aspiring lawyers the cutthroat paper chase of first-year law school. And those who aspire to the most exalted title of all, President, are required to traverse a campaign trail of Homeric peril. Its length is ludicrous: three years for any serious candidate; its requirements absurd: giving up privacy, often family and almost always a job ("You have to be unemployed to run for President," says Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who leaves the Senate in January and is pondering a run for the presidency...
...Virtually all "one-time" costs could be eliminated by a policy that accorded the Corporation a sufficiently long period to sell the affected stocks it now owns. such a period might be seven years, the average length of a modern business cycle...
...Council to waive one of the rules it had passed overwhelmingly earlier that same night. While several aspects of the resolution argued against its adoption, its violation of a precedent so recently established was merely the most obvious and the easiest to understand. The Council did indeed discuss at length whether to preserve the precedent, and in the end decided to respect procedural norms. The Council's discussion of procedure, however, does not justify the statement that it was "tangled in procedural arguments...
...Cinderella in spectacular grand jetés. In the best vignette, he copes insouciantly with violent would-be princesses who wrestle with him for the precious slipper. A bit vain, lacking perhaps ideal royal tolerance, he is at heart a good egg, and better company for a full-length fairy tale in 1984 than the standard, hand-wringing Adonis. -By Martha Duffy