Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, by Leonard Cohen (Viking; 243 pages; $5.75), is jacket-blurbed by its proud publishers as "a tasteless affront." They also call it "a religious epic of incomparable beauty," but they were right the first time. At its best, Losers is a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea. The flipster fictioneers have treated this theme so often that the method has become standardized: spit in their shoe, serve it to you. Novelist Cohen is all spit and no polish. His anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member...
Adelsberg (two) was beaten by Peter Grossman, 6-3, 6-4. Adelsberg had been suffering from a heavy cold and seemed sluggish...
...conservative-led coalition government is pressing hard for some kind of alliance with the Common Market. Though barred from full membership by its peace treaty with Russia, Austria believes that even "associate" status in the EEC would mean tariffs so low that competition would force its sluggish home industries to become more efficient. Of course, some Austrian firms would perish in the process. "They'd die anyway eventually," shrugs Austrian EEC Envoy Eugen Buresch. As harsh as that prescription sounds, Austria seems willing to swallow it to bolster its economic strength...
Even if some sales are sluggish, the industry's income is rising because, as G.M. President James Roche says, buyers are continuing to demand "more car per car." Of the 1966 cars, 30% are sold with air conditioning, 39% with power brakes and 69% with power steering. Even more than last year, the fastest sellers are the luxury and sporty cars that are loaded with up to $800 worth of extras; slowest-moving are the stripped-down utilitarian models that offer only basic transportation. Intermediate-sized cars are the hit of the season, up from...
...what has plagued this sluggish monster of an organization for the past few years is not how to stay alive, but how to lead the hundreds who join it only to hear a few top-name speakers, not how to make noise, but how to say something significant in political vacuum which is Harvard vague liberal consensus. Young Dems' membership problem is one not of numbers, but of quality, in a college whose liberal student activists join SDS and whose non-activist creative thinkers write tutorial papers...