Word: flaccidity
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...university set up the center as a confusing blend of graduate and undergraduate studies. In fact, it was just another department with an amorphous mission. Alarmed at a possible flop, prominent Hawaiians campaigned for a prestigious director: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who judged that the center had a flaccid future, backed away...
...humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters; and in a theater season of flaccid falsity, there is something to respect in the way it rings true. But there should be more to respond to, something with personal as well as sociological value; and the play's own self-created mood is shattered when at the end the girl bursts not into a blind...
Make Mine Mink (Rank; Continental). Terry-Thomas is a minor British comedian with a mouth like a disappointed mail slot, gaunt but somehow flaccid cheeks, cavernous eye sockets containing soggy blue objects that look as if they had sat all night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love...
...Taste of Honey (by Shelagh Delaney) was written, out of dissatisfaction with seeing flaccid plays, by a 19-year-old Lancashire girl. By the time she was 21 it had run for a year in London's West End, as it deserved to. For a playwright of 19, A Taste of Honey is a most talented piece of work...
...people are always denied the benefit of the doubt. When they get excited and start calling for the Marines and generally throwing their weight about, they are castigated for being hysterical children. Yet when they remain calm and unruffled, they are castigated for being lethargically senile, too tired and flaccid for world leadership ... I do not wish to suggest, of course, that all is well with...