Word: moribundity
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...Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass plate on the bar marks his presence, and his face ornaments the menu, which includes a rumsteak au poivre Hemingway...
Paradoxically, these restrictive measures come at a time when Greek life is enjoying a nationwide renaissance. Fraternity membership has mushroomed to 400,000 from a low point of 149,000 in the long-haired '70s; sororities have shown a similar resurgence. Even at Yale, fraternities, once moribund, resurfaced soon after Connecticut raised the drinking age to 21. Sororities have come back to Stanford after a 40-year hiatus. Harvard continues to outlaw fraternities, as it has since the turn of the century, but students have banded together unofficially in at least three such groups...
...night after work, we gathered at the Nutall Volunteer Fire Department for a lesson in local history from Dennis McCutcheon, a local 4-H agent who feverishly promoted the notion that hand-crafted items could be the salvation of West Virginia's moribund economy. To hear McCutcheon get steamed about abortion, secular humanism and the abolition of corporal punishment in schools, you might think you were in the heart of Reagan country. You might think this, that is, until you heard him tell stories of the life-and-death struggle against the coal companies...
Letting Lithuania buy its freedom is a good financial move for the Soviet Union. It will pump a lot of money into the nation's moribund economy, in much the same way that the end of the Cold War is supposed to provide the U.S. with a "peace dividend." The "freedom dividend" could be the economic spark Gorbachev needs to put borscht in every pot and Western consumer goods in every shop...
...move signals the end of CIA involvement in the moribund struggle against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, since Bermudez was the last contra on the payroll. By severing its sole known tie to the rebels, the CIA acknowledged that the contras are finished as a fighting force. The cutoff also signals a small victory for Secretary of State James Baker. He wants the contras to negotiate an end to their dispute with the Sandinistas...