Word: moribundity
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McCrocklin Caper. Though moribund, it did not die. And lately, it has shown every sign of revival. One recent issue reported the revolt of black athletes at the University of Texas' El Paso branch; another took up the cudgels for a long-neglected tribe of Indians. As usual, both stories had been largely ignored by the daily Texas press. So was the Observer's inside account of the editorial revolt and shake-up at the Austin American-Statesman, where pinchpenny management refused to replate for another edition on the night of Robert Kennedy's death...
Unfortunately, all this promises more crises and convulsions in 1968. The con fusion tends to confirm extremist notions that U.S. institutions are moribund, that the only solution is to uproot society and start afresh. Only the fatuous deny that too many courts, legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions...
When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...
...slickly packaged Broadway version of hippiedom, Hair is now in its third incarnation. It had a limited run last fall at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater, later surfaced at the discotheque Cheetah. Compared with this season's crop of moribund Broadway musicals, Hair thrums with vitality. Nonetheless, it is crippled by being a bookless musical and, like a boneless fish, it drifts when it should swim. Director Tom O'Horgan lashes up waves of camouflage, but distraction is no substitute for destination...
...once-moribund development is losing its scars under the bold doctoring of Los Angeles-based R. A. Watt Co. Inc., a Boise Cascade Corp. subsidiary that ranks among the nation's five largest residential builders. Since taking over the place a year ago, Watt has renamed it New Bellehurst, refurbished many of its wrecked houses, redesigned others, sold 116 homes for $4,500,000. Having risked $21 million to buy the property out of receivership, Watt expects to wind up in a few years with a tidy profit and a stylish $48 million community of 2,000 homes...