Word: unread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran psephologist, Caddell did election projections for a local TV station as a high school student in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1970 he polled for Ohio's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate (now Governor) John Gilligan at a salary of 18? an hour plus expenses and produced an ungainly -and largely unread-2,000-page report. But by 1971 the Harvard senior and two partners had refined their technique and formed Cambridge Survey Research. Their first of many clients: George McGovern, whom C.S.R. projected as the Democratic nominee. Next, C.S.R. plans to offer quarterly economic reports to business executives...
...uncertain how much good Harvard's laborious wrangling with the issue will do in the end, since the Corporation did not send the ACSR statement to the Public Service Commission. ACORN is now trying to have the statement introduced as evidence, and if it fails the statement will go unread by the authorities...
...triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave this or any similar book half unread without feeling the slightest qualm? With a bow to Professor Butts, one answer might be the cartoon below...
...expected his pocket to burst into flame. She'll write them forever, he thought; that's her nature. If not to me, then to the next one who comes into the house who's done something she wishes she had. He made up his mind to leave the note unread...
...Players) contributed an essay about the sad post-Darwinian view of animals (as failed, and therefore negligible, members of the tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote