Word: sluggish
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Addicted to Dashes. But on his return home, Mannix arrives at the precise instant when his twelve-year-old daughter shoots and kills her mother, whom she has found in bed with a lover. From this point, the story starts to eddy in sluggish circles. Judge Mannix, who had seemed to be the novel's main character, drops from the author's primary notice. He is not really replaced; instead, his crippled family is endlessly viewed and reviewed by its remaining members and a succession of friends. This inward turning is less absorbing than Novelist Calisher believes...
...entire squad played very, very well," enthused Barnaby last night. "They were overtennised after the New England last weekend, so we pretty much let them rest Monday and Tuesday. As a result, I was terribly afraid that the squad would be sluggish for the Dartmouth match...
...Sluggish profits are certain to affect salary levels, dividends and stock market prices. Eventually, falling profits would hit employment. It is widely agreed that the economy must be throttled back. The trick now is to run the engine so that it can speed up as swiftly as it can slow down...
...night's ninth story. First Tuesday's 50-minute investigation of the Army's chemical-biological warfare program, by far the best single story produced by either video magazine, came on after some overlong exotica on Turkey's whirling dervishes. The show's sluggish pace is not always quickened by Vanocur, who seems faintly uncomfortable in the studio's surrealistic, futuristic setting...
Mixed Quality. Criticism of the board seems to increase with the arrival of each new "Administration. In 1961, because the incoming Kennedy Administration feared that the Federal Reserve might not go along with plans to stimulate the then-sluggish economy, some New Frontiersmen spread the fiction that it was a "tradition" for the Federal Reserve chairman to offer to resign. Martin never took the hint. Today's Federal Reserve governors are mostly Democratic appointees and, for the first time in many years, the board stands to the left of the Administration. But President Nixon has pointedly asked Martin...