Word: moribundity
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...differences between individuals or groups by attributing them to genetic differences between individuals or groups ferences between individuals or groups is not any central element of the paradigm-- most would agree that it is not an element at all. The fields that address such questions are genetics, and the moribund "trait" psychology. Since the paradigm deals with the adaptations of species, it cannot logically be made to justify social inequality as being based on innate genetic differences...
...forced to leave because of either politics or economic conditions just as he was establishing his film career. It worked for him most spectacularly hi London, where, with films like The Private Life of Henry VIII and The Four Feathers, he singlehanded, and almost overnight, turned the moribund British movie industry-and his company, London Films-into an international force in the 1930s. Indeed, about the only place it did not work for him, at least initially, was Hollywood. But that really was not his fault: the place had no hotels or restaurants that met his exacting standards...
...Carter Administration last week attempted to revive its moribund voluntary guidelines by creating a 15-member committee, including representatives of labor and management, that will recommend new wage standards to replace the current 7% guide. Since unions had strongly opposed the guidelines, forming the committee was a step toward reconciliation between the President and labor. Unions still have scant incentive for moderate settlements at a time when inflation is roaring at 13%. The Labor Department announced that consumer prices rose by 1.1% in August, the seventh straight month of an increase of 1% or more. Because prices rise faster than...
...soon see a very different set-up for the moribund popular music field: thriving local musical cultures with their own regional audiences, their own small showcases, and their own independent record labels entirely supplanting the super-group, platinum record, Meadowlands Stadium pattern of the last decade. That would mean the multi-million-dollar structure of big record labels--usually the corporate subsidiaries of even larger entertainment conglomerates--could atrophy or entirely crumble...
...point: "that 'decadence' is an unstable word and concept whose significations and weights continually change in response to shifts in morals, social, and cultural attitudes, and even technology." But the protean term is still tempting. It seems the one word that will do to point toward something moribund in a culture, the metastasis of despair that occurs when a society loses faith in its own future, when its energy wanes and dies. It would probably be more narrowly accurate to use words like corrupt or depraved to describe, say, punk rock, or murder in a gas line...