Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These bleak puppets seek shelter in squalid, motionless routine. Instead of moving toward a comforting resolution, Pinter's plays develop by shedding obscurities until emotions and paradoxes in a situation are uncovered...
Racing Rupture. Such shallow earthquakes, which are apt to be the most violent and do the most damage, are usually caused by sections of the earth's crust slipping past each other along great cracks called faults. Most of the time, a fault is motionless, its two rock faces pressed tightly together, cemented, perhaps, by chemical action. During these quiet periods, tension builds up along the fault. If the fault finally yields at one point, the rupture races along it at several miles per second. Hundreds of miles of rock relax like a broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy...
There are collections of epigrams--G.B.S. On Women: "It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. Nay, she often does wait motionless. That is how the spider waits...
...without further developing it. Further, some of his philosophy seems almost meaningless. For example, when describing the "Breath," the vital energy of life, he suggests that "Whatever was once a movement or an impulse upward in the forward foregoing generation--whatever was once Spirit--becomes, in the subsequent generation, motionless, stifled, heavy and in time reacts just like substance...
...week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck. At week's end his condition was still listed as "critical," and the probability of permanent paralysis was "very high...