Word: seven-year
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...Vanzetti is mired in good intentions. And though Montaldo's heart is in the rights place, his camera is not. Narratively, the film is a botch; it wanders and is tedious. Montaldo's boundless sympathy for the anarchist pair erodes his intellectual discipline, and the painstaking journey through the seven-year ordeal is finally not worth the effort...
...momentarily, the two of you simply stand there. You trying to figure out whether you're acting more like Tom Ewell in "The Seven-Year Itch" or is it Tony Curtis in "Some Like It Hot," Liz in the infamous white hotpants she wore to last spring's Boston Book Fair, making like June in the Rodgers & Hammerstein lyric...
...most amazing part of the tour for me came five minutes later as we looked out on Soldiers' Field to our right and Phil described the Bubble (The Farrell Track Facility). "See that structure shaped sort of like a balloon? We call that a seven-year building because it comes down after seven years. It was originally built three or four years ago to hold commencement activities, and then they tried baseball and ind?? ????k in there. But they've stopped using it for baseball. It's made out of canvas and rubber compounds...
During World War I, scores of U.S. professors were fired for failure to follow patriotic orthodoxy. During the McCarthy era, tenure rules helped prevent reprisals, though not entirely. Today, unfair firing is quite difficult. Typically, young teachers get up to seven-year probationary appointments; after six years, a departmental committee reviews each newcomer's work and recommends that he either be let go or "given tenure"-re-hired on a permanent basis...
Other critics say that such reforms will fail unless backed up with believable threats to fire professors who do not shape up. One proposal: give all faculty members contracts for three-to seven-year terms, renewable only if they stay at the top of their form. Massachusetts' Hampshire College is trying such a system; Maryland's St. John's College has used one for years...