Word: erraticism
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Most of the Syrian occupation forces pulled out of West Beirut during the first week of the fighting, and since then the quality of law-and-order in the streets has been erratic. Some shopkeepers complained of armed gangs demanding food or liquor, and rumors spread about car thefts and...
On Saturday the jurors moved into the now empty courtroom for their longest, and most tense, day of deliberations. A debate flared over whether Hinckley's erratic cross-country travels showed him to be crazy. Said Copelin: "We went in our minds everywhere Hinckley went. When he flew, we...
Her reasons for doing so are painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of...
His zeal for scribbling led to journalism; he became a major socialist writer and editor, with a talent for extremist invective. "The national flag is for us a rag to plant on a dunghill," he wrote in the years before World War I when he was a strong internationalist. But...
It can give one pause to realize the enormous power Harvard's Faculty has chosen to give its graduate student section leaders. Often untrained in teaching or evaluating written work these graders may single handedly determine a student's graduate school prospects, job possibilities, and financial aid standing to say...