Word: tortuousness
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Behind the tortuous unraveling of the American role in Viet Nam, as well as the national debate over the court-martial and conviction of Lieut. William Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when...
...pace so that he might be able to "outgut" Ryun with a long, sustained kick. At the half-mile mark, though, Ryun led the eleven-man field in the dawdling time of 2:03.3. Forced to move out earlier than he had anticipated, Liquori passed Ryun and began a tortuous 660-yd. sprint for the finish. Rounding the final turn, Ryun pulled to within a step of Liquori. Down the stretch they came, Ryun with his head ticking rhythmically, Liquori with shoulders hunched and head back like a man fighting for breath. At the tape, Liquori was still a step...
...been directed with a sure and sensitive hand by Jules Irving, and the actors not only seem to be comfortable with each other, but also to cherish the play. They deliver their lines with an easy fluency that makes the drama itself a spirited pleasure rather than a tortuous skull-puzzler...
...manpower for each project through union hiring halls. Unions generally dictate crew sizes and working conditions. If a contractor refuses to schedule regular overtime, he is given the dregs of the labor pool. Unions have been able to create artificial labor shortages by restricting admission; most insist on a tortuous apprenticeship training of three to five years. Local unions usually do their own bargaining, city by city and craft by craft. When one powerful unit wins a fat increase, every other union leader in the area must try to leapfrog to a higher settlement-or risk losing face and perhaps...
What are the webs made of? Of guilt, Laing seems to say-unnecessary, irrational guilt, perhaps resulting from fantasied childhood "wrongs" and from tortuous, circular reasoning about causes and effects. When a parent is angry, a child is sure that he is unloved because of his "badness." Thus...