Word: moribundity
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...result in the student-s term-time work is a performance uninspired by a sense of personal engagement. At his best the student is simply dutiful, at his worst moribund. If he falls behind in his reading during the lecture part of the term, it is primarily because the mechanics of course work discourage ongoing, direct involvement in the material...
Boston is moribund. Sad, but true, the better part of Boston lies in the past. The city is a mausoleum--mighty and serene. One could spend hours reciting the mortuary charms of its innumerable cemeteries, with their illustrious dead, which dot the city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs have decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
...result in the student's term-time work is a performance uninspired by a sense of active, personal engagement. At his best the student is simply dutiful, at his worst moribund. If he falls behind in his reading during the lecture part of the term, it is primarily because the mechanics of course work discourage ongoing, direct involvement in the material...
...pedestrians on downtown sidewalks. It was more than the sobersided Detroit Athletic Club could stand. "We are impelled," announced the club's News, "to caution the Tigers' friends not to make too hasty an appraisal of their potential." Few Detroiters listened. Their big-league ball club, moribund for the past 15 years, was suddenly the top team in baseball. Last week the Tigers split four games with the New York Yankees, swept three from the Baltimore Orioles, and moved five games in front of the American League. Pennant fever raged in Detroit...
...second key to anticipating the space policy of the Kennedy Administration is the record of Johnson, and the experience under Eisenhower of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, which has been moribund since January, 1960. Johnson, former Chairman of the Senate Space Committee, is known around Capitol Hill as a "space cadet," a man who supports a bold civilian space program. It is doubtful that he will permit the undercutting of the scientific satellite and rocket programs, the life sciences program, or the aeronautical research, which is neither highly publicized nor directly related to military weapons systems...