Word: stuporous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as Oscar Wilde once remarked that the youth of America is its oldest tradition, much the same could be said of complaints about the failings of the U.S. political system. George Washington grumbled that "the stupor, or listlessness with which our public measures seem to be pervaded, is, to me, matter of deep regret." Through all the criticism, the mere fact that the system has survived more than two centuries of turbulent change is the strongest possible evidence of its solidity. While the American way of Government has repeatedly stood accused of inefficiency, the best defense is that...
...Voikos, first with his equipment and then with persuasion: "Linda, you've tried to deceive me. You did steal the money." The bookkeeper, a six-year employee, quit before she could be fired. Traumatized by the incident, she spent much of the next two years in a Valium stupor, fought off suicide, and even now, six years later, is afraid to handle the bookkeeping in the doctor's office she manages...
...first act, Weston awakens from a stupor alone on stage. Although he doesn't know it, the farmhouse is no longer his. He crosses to the refrigerator, opens it--empty--and squats silhouetted in the light from the great refrigerator God. A young lamb rests by the stove, brought there to recover from maggots, tempting Weston's hunger. The family is to be displaced by housing for families who presumably can afford to eat--a poignant irony for a farming and gambling man. For the system hurts you as often as it rewards you, and once...
...Johnson back to the ranch, hundreds of student supporters invaded the state. Huntley-Brinkley brought Vietnam home every night in living color, and the McCarthy kids knocked on doorfronts to remind New Hampshire that now was the chance to stop it. The Johnson write-in effort functioned in a stupor; McCarthy's army--which the Senator bemusedly termed "the government-in-exile"--pulsed with energy. "Those people were angry," remembered Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail...