Word: protractedness
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Many people put down the consumer's protracted spending splurge to his relief at the end of the Cuban crisis last fall-but that is only part of the story. Because the new economy has created some built-in balances, it may well be that the enthusiastic consumer will...
Eventually automation, like previous technological upheavals, should lead to new industrial expansion. But only if the Government acts to speed and case the process can this country hope to avoid the protracted dislocation and human suffering that characterized the historical analogues of automation.
At the beginning of his poetry reading at Harvard last week, Brother Antoninus paced about the stage of Emerson D, glowered at his audience, and remained silent for several minutes. The protracted silence created an acute and almost unbearable tension. Then he spoke: "I look at you. I don't...
Potential Fatalities. Both sides have settled down to stubborn warfare that could, if sustained, kill off as many as three Manhattan dailies. One candidate for extinction is Dorothy Schiff's Post, a liberal afternoon tabloid with a tenuous lease on life. The Post, which has been replenished with periodic...
The biggest uncertainty right now is whether or not Harvard will have a basketball team consistently able to offer some reasonable facsimile of college level play. Last year, the team had a 10-14 record. its protracted losing streak at the end of the season tended to erase the hopeful...