Word: torpor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetry right on the stump. Barred these three years from the government's councils by the jealous Nacionalistas, Vice President Macapagal has had little to do but recite an occasional poem in the boondocks, cultivate his excellent relations with the Americans, denounce the Garcia administration for venality and torpor, and impatiently await the Liberal hour. Now he proclaims himself the spokesman of "a new generation" in the style of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. "Our people want change," he cried in his acceptance speech last week. "We shall open a new era that will bring...
...promises, and the baseless accusations at the opposition that the tolerant convention watcher has learned to expect. It reflects at the same time something of which many of the delegates to Los Angeles may not entirely have been aware: the genuine dissatisfaction of their party's intellectuals with the torpor in their society...
Stirred out of their torpor, the boys leaped to Hanners' challenge. Said he: "Sometimes they write a paper for me without my asking...
...Connection is all about drug addicts, and it has a sporadic, hypodermic sort of distinction. The junkies sit in a pad impatiently waiting, but for nothing so vague as Godot: they wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky...
What Thou Wilt. Apart from Mamma's quirks, Havelock's boyhood in Surrey was uneventful to the point of torpor. The boy was a bookworm; the man would be a cultural boa constrictor gorged with print. He had four sisters and an absentee sea-captain father; Ellis would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough...