Word: moribundity
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...chemistry, did research in organic sulphur compounds, worked in Iran for three years with an oil company. When he decided in his early 20s that he wanted to devote his life to art. he found his knowledge of chemistry enabled him to bring new techniques to the old, nearly moribund art of etching...
Hughes said he had been encouraged by the response he and other speakers had received at a conference on the "ideologically moribund" Northwestern University campus. "Speakers who stressed peace, anti-discrimination and the growth of a new American left got the greatest response," he declared. "If that could happen at Northwestern, something was clearly happening in the country." Two weeks after the conference decided...
...remains of this doctrine should best be buried, as every dead body is, so that it does not poison the air by its decay." Some Americans, even including some officials of the U.S. Government, look upon it as, if not quite dead, then at least moribund. It is "out of date," says Eleanor Roosevelt...
Inevitably, not everything has come up aces for Hatfield. The Democratic-controlled state legislature turned down as a "power grab" his proposal to reform Oregon's unwieldy state constitution by increasing the Governor's powers. And he has admittedly failed to breathe new life into a moribund Republican Party organization. "I haven't been able to please the old pros, and I've just about given up trying," he says. 'T do not control the party, nor do I have any desire...
Directed by Agnés Varda, a 34-year-old photographer whose first film (La Pointe Courte) established her as "the Founding Mother of the new French cinema," Cleo tells the story of 90 moribund minutes in the life of a featherbrained Parisian canary (Corinne Marchand) who has just begun to peck the plum of show-business success. As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death...