Word: unreadability
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...mainly from a lack of publicity. Tucked away in a tiny room on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House, it is rarely visited by anyone except the women who staff it five days and two evenings a week. Its small but growing collection of feminist literature goes largely unread. Staffers often sit idle, waiting for an occasional phone call...
...larger scale. Few recognize the significant role of education in achieving these things, the need to encourage their children to take advantage of what excruciatingly limited opportunities there are--for whites and Indians alike on the coast. So that someday mysterious letters from high places will no longer go unread into the fire, and representatives sent to the Ministry of Indian Affairs in Quebec City will begin to guide the federal government out of a myopia of ignorance...
...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...