Word: protractedness
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A municipio is a cluster of villages around a "ceremonial center," where there are the town hall, jail, church, marketplace and a school. In the municipio of Zinacantan, for example, most of the 7600 Indians live in the surrounding hamlets, called parajes, moving in to the center only when they...
Some of the charges put to Freudianism are thoroughly familiar: that it is an expensive, timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental...
Pleading Hardship. For most of those who serve, jury duty is a financial hardship. Even though the tightfisted parish of New Orleans, which does not pay jurors anything, is not typical, the juror in federal courts gets only $20 a day. In most state courts he may expect to earn...
The techniques used on prisoners by the Communists today have become painfully familiar, even though the beatings, threats and psychological pressures given Bucher and his crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined...
The size and shape of negotiating tables is another problem that has confounded many a diplomat. At the 1959 Geneva Conference of the Big Four, a protracted dispute was finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West...