Word: protractedness
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The author's most recent withdrawal may mean merely that his social needs are met by a wife and two children (Matthew, 1½, and Peggy, a precociously bright five-year-old). But Salinger is at work on his first really large body of fiction. The Glass family story cycle is...
The closing notice was an exasperated end to a protracted and angry quarrel, beginning last April, between the Met's stubborn manager Rudolf Bing and the equally stubborn negotiating committee representing the Met's 92-man orchestra. The subject was money. Last season the Met's musicians...
The U.S. came to Geneva determined to press for a "truly neutral and independent Laos" and some sort of watchdog commission to prevent any outside interference. As the conference began, there wasn't a ghost of a chance of getting anything like that. Some cynics suggested that the best...
The show was stopped too frequently for any one number to be called a show-stopper, though I judge that the Deus ex Machina Mambo ("You can put stock in a/ Deus ex Machina . . .") drew the most protracted applause. In fact, the level of humor was so consistently high up...
The principle of competitive emulation teaches that when two competitors engage in protracted struggle each tends to adopt the other's most successful "tactics" (to use the President's word). And to the extent that the struggle permeates their domestic situations, they also tend to adopt similar "institutions."