Word: protractedness
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Psychologist Hazleton's protracted "dolor" may have qualified her as an expert on the blues, but about depression she does not know beans. Being bruised by the blues may give one insight into the human condition, but being crushed by depression definitely does not.
Because of intense arm twisting by both interest groups, deliberations were protracted, and 600,000 pending cases were put into limbo. The legal authority of bankruptcy judges had to be extended on an emergency basis four times. The final extension expired last week, causing the temporary crisis.
This is true gallows humor, bitter and funny, set in Argentina nearly ten years ago during that country's period of paramilitary repression. Left wing violence triggered a savage righ wing reaction, a protracted spasm of bloodthirstiness and fear among the police and the military. To be a professor...
Now playing at movie theaters not very near you: the two versions of Director Leone's $28 million gangster epic. If you wish to see the sprawling, lurid, hallucinatory film cut to Leone's specifications at 3 hr. 47 min., you need only make a pilgrimage to Paris...
The Harvard Law School has become a center of activism and controversy over the last two years. Last year, President Bok used his annual report to take a highly critical look at the American legal system and the role of law schools. Last spring, student concerns such as minority hiring...