Word: unreadability
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...Baraheni's memoirs of prison leave us wondering--as they are meant to do--what became of the others in the Komite. What of the women who sang to keep up the spirits of the other prisoners? What of the man under torture because SAVAK's agents found an unread copy of "The Communist Manifesto" in his room? Like Baraheni, they have nothing to confess, nothing to offer their torturers but a denial of their existence...
...press spokesmen to take the initiative in announcing U.S. positions on foreign policy matters. In the past, the spokesmen were prepared each day with as many as 40 responses, but only issued the ones requested by reporters. If the right questions were not asked, prepared comments were returned unread to the briefing folders...
...Chic" defending Evelyn Waugh whom he says will be remembered as the greatest English novelist of the 20th century for his concern with the stuff of life--manners, dress, the Right People. He continually attacks what he considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said for Wolfe's own style is that it's, well, catty. It's the style of a gossip columnist for a small-town newspaper who describes some awful shotgun wedding where...
...center of Widener Library there is a room that is always quiet. Heavy bound books, encased behind glass doors, sit dusted but unread. Lamps illuminate each of the study areas along the two polished tables, yet the chairs remain empty. In the corner of the room, an elderly man eyes visitors from behind a massive desk and then returns to copying numbers in a ledger...
This is not fair. To bring a team that the Red Sox trail by two games to Fenway Park when Homer and Hegel need to be pulled from that monstrous pile of unread books is simply not fair...