Word: moribundity
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...contended that the rule against entrapment had not stopped undercover agents from fostering serious crimes -such as the Camden, N.J., raid on draft files for which a paid Government informer provided key plans of the target office and allegedly stirred up the plot again when it was all but moribund. Concluded Stewart: "It is the Government's duty to prevent crime, not to promote...
...moment, took the back seat, in a slightly moribund state. Some theologians, borrowing a leaf from Nietzsche, said that God was dead. What most of them meant, of course, was that certain concepts of God could no longer work for modern man: the personal, loving father-figure God of the Bible, for instance. While that God was dying, a New Morality was being baptized, a "situation ethics" that told man that moral judgments were dependent on individual circumstances, not on rigid rules...
Edward Zwick has made the rather barren script, by Joel Schwartz '66, into an excellent point of departure for his ensemble of actors. The cast, combining fluidity and grace with a concern for moral issues, adopt different characters and moves from joyous court scenes to moribund battles with remarkable ease. Bernard Holmberg extends his domain over the entire audience with his powerful portrayals of both the again Kings Saul and David. He carefully constructs the painful tension of a forsaken leader, and confidently bursts into song and dance. In the final scene, his change from proud endurance to senility...
...making deep inroads into such traditional Communist strongholds as the working-class "Red belt" around Paris, François Mitterrand's once moribund Socialists surged to within 500,000 votes of the Communists - and raised a lot of old fears and jealousies. Threatened by the loss of his party's traditional position as the leader of the French left, Communist Marchais stubbornly rejected Mitterrand's proposal that both parties should back the leftist candidates most likely to win - which in any given district would most likely be the relatively respectable Socialist candidate rather than the Communist...
...side, the U.S. State Department, at the orders of the White House, is merely offering itself as a potential Middle East go-between should Israel or the Arabs really want to talk. One State Department official who favors more pressure from Washington last week gloomily characterized peace prospects as "moribund...