Word: torpor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, but at that time most black students were afraid to go hear him. Travis Williams '63 admits, "though we revere him now that he's dead, most of us fled his naked language." Assistant Dean Archie Epps remembers being a "fat old satisfied guy" shocked out of his torpor by Malcolm's homely iconoclasm...
...long as he keeps the air free of dramatic pauses the dialogue has the porcelain sparkle that is Pinter's cache. But from time to time the actors forget they are in a Pinter play and try to make us understand what they are feeling. When that happens torpor floods the stage and it seems that the puzzling plot and symbolism just aren't worth the trouble...
Word began to flow forth from the recesses of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that I was a "subtle racists," that the Negro people had been insulted, and further that the facts were wrong. The Children's Bureau awoke from its torpor to join this effort with singularly feline earnestness...
...Glacial Torpor. Though $750 mil lion sounds like a bundle, it is only a Band-Aid for an industry that often consumes more new capital per year than all stock and bond issues combined...
Because housing responds with glacial torpor to such conditions, the prospect is that fewer homes will go up next year than in 1966. At its annual convention in Chicago last week, the National Association of Home Builders forecast a 10% decline, to 1,100,000 starts. The Commerce Department ex pects a drop of as much as 14%, to something between 1,050,000 and 1,150,000 new units, in either case the lowest number of starts since...