Word: moribundity
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...REVIEW of the premiere (1902) of Pelleas et Melisande complained of the work's "constant nebulosity" and of its "monotonous recitative, unbearable and moribund," remarks which are critical failures because they judge Debussy's original work by precisely the musical conventions which he renounced. His opera eschews the sumptuous polyphony, turgid mythologism, city-directory leit-motives, and vertiginous romanticism of the Ring. Debussy seeks a deeper organicism in which music is not grafted onto drama or drama is used as suggestion for musical contours, but rather where music and poetry are absorbed one into the other to yield an operatic...
Talent for Innovation. Boyd and John son are lawyers and longtime friends with a talent for innovation. Johnson came to the Illinois Central in early 1966 after rejuvenating the moribund Railway Express. He increased profits by 41% to $22 million in 1967; profits were still higher last year. Johnson raised the investment in new cars and track and computerized the line's traffic-information operation. At the railroad's Chicago commuter stations, he installed turnstiles that open automatically when a passenger inserts a magnetically coded ticket in a slot. Through a merger now awaiting approval by the Interstate...
...Congress was glad that the President had come back, for its first concern is with itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged
...malleable youths: but instead of waiting for the three to be perverted by the Duke and his court, from the outset and in a heavy-handed way he anticipates their final downfall. Everything is hung with doom so that we can neither laugh at their innocence, which is moribund, nor being newcomers to the play ourselves, comprehend their suffering...
...campaign began with a bang and hurriedly converted itself into a whimper. When the plan was announced earlier this month by Wesley E.Profit '69, the election of the new slate seemed to promise a radical transformation of the Coop from a moribund and insensitive burden on the Cambridge community into a major force for social equality and change...