Word: moribundity
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Today many students who left Redford for parochial or other schools have transferred back, swelling enrollment to 3,450. The school's once moribund parent organization has grown from ten members in 1984 to about 50. Greene, says English Teacher Janet Bobby, "built a structure around the school so everybody could be free." Although students have complained incessantly about Greene's disciplinarian ways, and in February tried unsuccessfully to stage a protest, many take pride in the school's new image. Says Junior Natalie Bien- Ami, 16: "We're not gunmen, we're smarties...
...doesn't matter, because you're going to a better place anyway!" To many of his eager listeners in a San Salvador stadium, the distant hope of heaven may have been at least momentarily alluring, beset as their nation has been by a seven-year guerrilla war and a moribund economy. When the preacher later assured them that "terrible times are coming," the applause of approving believers reached a thunderous peak...
...performers. As Brustein himself has complained, it is nearly impossible to keep good actors in Cambridge with New York just a shuttle away. For some reason, though, a covey of new and returning talent has decided to roost at the ART this season, revitalizing a company that was moribund two years...
...that was then nearly five years old. The new President boldly proposed peace talks with the Marxist rebels, then met their leaders at a church in La Palma, a town in guerrilla-held territory. Buoyed by generous aid from the U.S., Duarte vowed to revitalize the country's moribund economy. Today, however, an end to both the simmering war and the deepening economic crisis seems a distant possibility...
LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...