Word: moribundity
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...Exorcise the Moribund...
...little more than two months on the job, Mardian's presence has rejuvenated the long moribund division that faded from public view after its heyday hunting Communists during the McCarthy era. With an expanded staff of 49 lawyers, Mardian will prosecute draft resisters and continue to investigate groups ranging from the Weathermen to the Jewish Defense League. According to his close friend, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Mardian is "a prodigious worker, brilliant lawyer and great believer in America. He knows what freedom...
...Close to Moribund. Now the wave of indignation has receded and the familiar facts of student political inactivism are left standing like rocks. Students are simply not working as they said they would. Many local chapters of the Movement for a New Congress, the Princeton-headquartered national group through which most students planned to participate, are close to moribund. In the Boston area, with some of the nation's most prestigious schools and several peace candidates, the M.N.C. rarely answers its phone...
Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...smallest details in perfect order, was the complete opposite of the mild-mannered Barbirolli, whose relaxed, romantic interpretations were based more on love than on technicality. When his contract at New York ran out, Barbirolli returned to England, by all accounts a failure, and took over the almost moribund Halle Orchestra of Manchester...