Word: yieldingness
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Demanding though the battle for the Delta will be, the rewards of cutting into the enemy's last rich refuge in Viet Nam will more than justify it. Even at unquiet stalemate-and occasionally in conditions of local accommodation between Viet Cong and government commanders-the Delta war has...
Arrowsmith employs low-key tones and rolling prose, but they only make his barbs the sharper. University administrators, he says, "have, quite literally, nothing to say," so they talk "dreary rubbish." Faculties are "caught both in the hideous jungle of academic bureaucracy and their own blind professional conservatism." Many doctoral...
Among the country's half-dozen major museums, Cleveland has long enjoyed a reputation as an aristocrat, partly because its location kept it aloof from the hurly-burly of the international art markets, partly because its purchases were often choice but eccentric, mainly because it was just plain loaded...
"Why?" Seeking a degree of certainty, many investors have taken their money out of the market and put it into fixed-interest bonds which, largely because of the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy, are offering the highest rates in decades. Chief victims of this trend are the blue...
In their comments on the cases tried before them, the 550 judges involved in the study very often believed they were able to spot what moved the jury, without necessarily yielding to it themselves. In a case where an obviously guilty defendant, tried without counsel, was acquitted, the judge reported...