Word: long
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COCA members certainly did not respond with public outrage and denounce Ortega's recent decision to halt the year-long ceasefire in Nicaragua, an act which drew widespread condemnation from the democratic leaders of this hemisphere. And I doubt that COCA members will make any noise if Ortega, as he has done in the past, intimidates the currently united democratic opposition and subverts the electoral process in order to keep himself in power...
...that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up? Down? Are its beams parallel?), and its evocation of construction in progress makes the Wexner Center seem perpetually unfinished, excitingly open-ended...
...Baltic dilemma. The American government never accepted the Soviet annexation of the republics 49 years ago. To this day, the State Department recognizes "legations" of anti-Communist emigres as the "representatives of the last free and legal governments" of their captive homelands. American diplomats have long avoided traveling to the Baltic capitals of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, since going there requires Moscow's permission...
...diplomatic boycott made moral and political sense as long as Baltic independence seemed an impossible dream. Now the policy is applied too rigidly. An Estonian Deputy Prime Minister, Rein Otsason, and the republic's party ideologist, Mikk Titma, wanted to come to the U.S. recently to lay the foundation for what may be the next free government of their country. But the U.S. delayed the visitors' visas and gave them the official cold shoulder once they arrived...
...example, in a recent lecture on his book The Old Ones of New Mexico, Professor Coles read a long section about an elderly Mexican woman's thoughts as she approached the end of her life. Then he asked the audience to think about the differences between their lives and her life: differences in culture, language, geographic location, social status, education. As is customary in this class, he asked for reflection on differences, not similarities; he asked his audience to create a distance between themselves and the people they meet in the readings. He doesn't seem to expect the students...