Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Melville's white whale, implying as it does that the entire world is nuts. This is clearly Condon's view, and he is mightily persuasive as he defines human character: foaming perversity, rascality, obsessional lunacy, wowserism, religious mania, assault and battery, and our old friends greed and lust. No sloth, though; Charley and his chums sure do keep active...
...anybody worth anything could continue to live in England. Every small town he drove through had the same faceless High Street: betting shops, uninviting pubs, takeaway Chinese restaurants, the pavements scarred with refuse spilling from plastic bags, as if the only growth industries left were those propagating ugliness and sloth. It seemed that the England he had once known had deliberately effaced itself...
...broken the back of high-level cronyism that flourished for nearly 20 years under former Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, until his death in 1982. The new man at the helm has given fair warning that he intends to wean the country from deeply ingrained habits, including alcoholism, corruption and sloth. Gorbachev's speech this week will show the direction in which he intends to lead his country...
...other major characters--Barnard Hughes as a would-be excorcist, and Valerie Curtin as Nick's sexually harassing boss--are such primitive caricatures that they might as well have worn giant placards saying "Sloth" and "Lust" on them...
While seeming to be a man of peace abroad, Andropov has virtually declared war at home on sloth, corruption and any signs of nonconformity. In an effort to instill greater discipline in the malingering Soviet work force, police have been ordered to make sweeps of public places, rounding up drunkards, vagrants and workers who ought to be on the job. Last week Andropov went to Moscow's Sergo Ordzhonikidze machine-tool factory, where he held a shop-floor version of a town meeting, and bluntly told the employees that "without discipline we cannot advance quickly...