Word: flaccidities
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...Catholic Church and a shifting coalition of minority parties determined to prevent the Communists, Italy's second largest party, from attaining power. In office for the past seven years, the Christian Democrats have turned complacent, done little to redress the squalid poverty of much of Italy, become a flaccid party of petty corruption. The factories of the north are booming, and Italy is gradually developing a thriving middle class. But the arid south and the poor in the city slums have little share in this prosperity, and no strong anti-Communist opposition party exists to represent the dissatisfied...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject, from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the flaccid 20th-century...
...taken all in all, we have felt that Harvard College is just a little better than any other college, that the good works of President Pusey and his young bespectacled Dean for the past seven years have been generally commendable. Dr. Pusey was far less a creature of the flaccid fifties than President Eisenhower, of our political capital; one must look abroad to find a match for the scope and imagination of the Program for Harvard College, since the "Great Leap Forward" is its only contender. We have thrown up our fat, white hands and decided that Mr. Bundy...
...social historian might have noted an evolutionary decline in the Riviera male. His feet are no longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...
...aside from the occasional flaccid generalization, the Harper's presentation does seem to treat many aspects of Harvard accurately and with interest. Diversity in the student body, Harvard aristocracy, tutorial, the growing intellectualism, clubs, and social life--all get the once over in what might be termed a Harvard Sampler...