Word: stagnant
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Solanas uses the aristocracy's own comment on images of itself to reinforce the overview of their antirational orientation he has already set up; their own baroque music to raise their monuments and cemetery to absurd heights of grandeur, to emphasize the stagnant, death-like concentration of wealth in this elite and isolated class. The clearly-drawn irony of the Argentine national anthem (sung by an opera singer in the European classical tradition), being dubbed over sordid scenes of a knife fight between hungry men and young boys and an old cripple waiting for a prostitute, exposes the fundamental contradiction...
Since 1959, members of Opus Dei have occupied most of the key education and business positions in Franco's cabinet. Observers credit these men with instituting the modernizing reforms which in the last ten years have revitalized Spain's formerly stagnant economy...
...classification of the city of Bell Gardens as "low income-stagnant" is partially correct. We are low income; we do have a large transient population. A large portion of our population is made up of nonskilled workers. We have a lot of room for improvement after the years of neglect that preceded our incorporation as a city...
...believe me, we are not stagnant. We know that we have the ability to face facts and move...
...Your Essay was pointed and perceptive, but you're talking about terminology, not language. Language is alive and human; terminology is stagnant and mechanistic. When "war" (language) can easily be transformed into "pacification" (terminology), then "right" and "wrong" (language) become matters of "rationalization" (terminology). Language like "open housing," "poverty" and, "My Lai" require people to take stands; terminology imposes no such moral imperative because it explains away conscience and integrity and thus makes man less human...