Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeble. The prognosis: poor. The avant-garde has finally run out of steam, whether in Munich or Los Angeles, Paris or New York; the turnover of styles and theories that gave the 1960s their racketing ebullience (Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Op, Pop and so on) has been followed by a sluggish descent into entropy. There seems to be no escape from that spiral...
...Many lectures are dull because they are burdened by their traditional function of information dissemination. Yet the printing press essentially rendered the traditional transcription of a professor's words obsolete, and modern technology--such as videotapes--has escalated the obsolescence. It is ironic that university teachers have been so sluggish to acknowledge these communication channels as resources to relieve them of boring educational burdens...
Cart Cullig debuted in the unlimited level looking sluggish and tired and lost to Cornell, 13-5. Harvard's Paul Dowling fell to the UMass heavyweight...
...excitement and tension of the later stages of the game contrasted sharply with the initial period, which was sluggish at best. Both teams appeared nervous and conservative for much of the first 15 minutes, with Harvard looking somewhat sloppy in its own end and disorganized offensively. But the Crimson drew first blood when a Bruin defensive error, a race between Felix Adedeji breakaway goal put Harvard ahead at 7:55 of the first half...
Completely dominating the play in the second half but unable to convert its advantage into goals, Harvard continued to look sluggish and disorganized much of the time it had the ball. The uncharacteristic inability to score which had stymied the squad against the Bruins was again in evidence, as repeated scoring opportunities failed to click for the exasperated Crimson...