Word: unreadability
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...Reading period allows students to put a semester of lectures, readings, problem sets, labs, and papers in perspective before the final exam asks them to make sense of it all. Reading period is also a last chance to study readings that felt by the wayside and might otherwise go unread. By subverting this valued Harvard institution, professors only limit the possibilities for thoughtful reflection and thorough exam preparation...
...nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most of Wells' work, it was a monumental bestseller in its own time, and is almost unread today...
...after the President suspended parts of his proposed secrecy order last week your book may still have a chance to go to press unread. "The Presidents has decided to suspend those parts of the directive," an administration spokesman said, "that are controversial and where there has been a lack of understandings by Congress...
Kafka was, in fact, an artist by deliberation and a visionary only by happenstance-and a poor visionary at that. On his deathbed he expected his manuscripts to be burned "without exception and preferably unread." That they were not was a betrayal of his wishes, and a permanent grant to world literature. To read him as some Slavic oracle is to miss his importance as a writer who could draw out his soul like leviathan. In Kafka's case, seeing the past was a far greater enterprise than foreseeing the future...
...revel in self-pity, especially when forced to digest large quantities of coursework in a short period of time. In Lowell House, some of my colleagues derive a strange pleasure from spending exam periods huddled in the dining hall, comparing the huge castles they have built out of unread history books and scientific manuals...