Word: torpor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morris thrives on such displays of university spirit. Along with Little Egypt's awakening from economic and cultural torpor, it is proof of his promise that S.I.U. "must do more than promote good teaching. We must take the university to the people...
...loan associations, which have recently jacked their interest rates as high as 5% to tempt savers. Amid their competition for customers, all the banks are worried about growing Government regulation: the Justice Department is striving to block several bank mergers, and the House Banking Committee, after years of torpor, is striking out with half-a-dozen investigations into many phases of banking...
Occasional scenes did penetrate the torpor induced by the first half-hour, surely one of the dullest film segments produced by Hollywood in a long while. But for the most part PT 109 was horrendous, devoted primarily to showing off Cliff Robertson's repertoire of facial expressions, all of which seemed to be subtle variations of a smirkish half-smile...
...sweltering heat of Virginia's Prince Edward County, Negroes woke from long torpor last week to demonstrate against the most infamous segregationist tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What...
...Both Maria and Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal to love as the murderer's angry bullet. At the hotel in Madrid, Maria lies wrapped in "the odor of their dying love," listening to the sounds from the adjoining room as Claire prepares to receive Pierre in a love equally doomed to dissolution...