Word: stagnant
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Mockmouse hated libraries. Still he had resolutely trudged from Lamont to Widener, to his house. They were all too noisy, and the air was stagnant. Hayes-Bicks proved no better place to study: Mockmouse wanted his own room. He tried going back late the first night, but the smell of turpentine was too strong...
Many recent novels and narratives have pictured Europe a dying continent, its citizens politically and intellectually stagnant. Arthur Koestler's Age of Longing and William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
...population could be raised on an area not much bigger than Rhode Island. So says the Carnegie Institution, in a report on the possibility of extracting foodstuffs from algae. The protein would be produced by growing one-celled algae (closely related to the green scum that forms on stagnant ponds) in "farms" resembling chemical factories, which may some day provide mankind with almost unlimited food...
...while the war went bloodily on. In Vienna, the Russians relaxed their iron hand. In Belgrade, they made overtures to the heretic, Tito. They even confessed that in postwar policy they had made some "mistakes." All along the globecircling seam where the West and Communism rub together abrasively, the stagnant air of cold war began to stir with Kremlin gestures of concession, of adjustment, even of retreat (see below...
Indo-China is a particularly appropriate place to carry on our resistance to Communist aggression; the war there is not stagnant like its Korean counterpart. Since China has no troops committed to the Communist army, a strong offensive could win the war. With a comparatively small addition of arms aid, there is an excellent chance that the Vietnamese troops could reinforce their territory behind the Communist lines and use it as a foothold for all out attack...