Word: moribundity
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Soviet reinvestment-on building the machine tools (and weapons) that the Soviets needed. Stalinist-minded Czech central planners (called "oxen" by many Czechs) blithely pumped billions of kroner in subsidies into moribund enterprises in order to make their master plans come true on paper. By 1963, Czech economic growth, which had been booming at 8% in 1949, had skidded to nothing-indeed, it actually was in decline, an unheard-of event in a planned economy...
...Connor defeat will force Senator Robert F. Kennedy to revitalize the moribund state Democratic party. This alone should entice many liberals to vote for Rockefeller on Tuesday...
ADDITIONS TO FURTHER DEFINITIONS (Impulse!). Jazz, even in its short history, already has a crowded pantheon of dead or moribund "Greats" who can be heard only on 78s or reissues. Not so Benny Carter who, as a Chocolate Dandy in 1929, was one of the pioneers of the alto saxophone. Busy with Hollywood-arranging assignments, Carter seldom plays today; but this new recording finds him as fluent as ever, brightening his own up-tempo compositions (Doozy, Come on Back) with four other ebullient saxophonists at his side...
...also a white lawyer's son named Paul Butterfield, who soaked up the Negro style during a five-year apprenticeship in South Side bands. Some blues buffs .are beginning to worry that the art, increasingly cut off from its country roots and diluted by white encroachments, will grow moribund. But the jumping Chicago scene today assures the vitality of the blues for a long time to come. A new vanguard of city-bred youths is already cropping up in the lesser-known bands and outlying clubs, catching the beat, learning the notes, taking up again the ancient, universal plaint...
...blemishes notwith-standing, emerged as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss White-side's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...