Word: torpor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists were poets, they would pay more attention to spring. That season of hope and expectation is normally a time for Americans to shake off their winter torpor, get out of the house and spend. Yet when spring began officially last week, consumers were in one of their chilliest moods in many a season...
...than scandal. Its layout is in the British popular mold: narrow columns, small body type, terse stories, a welter of breathless headlines, jumbled boxes and graphics-all suggesting an earthquake in the composing room. Once they get past the frenetic format, American readers may feel let down by the torpor of Star stories...
...metaphor is not the meaning. What emerges subliminally from The Contractor is that life runs the inevitable course of the rising and setting of the sun, that it moves with deceptive torpor yet is shatteringly brief, and that the sum of all its tediously accumulated fractions is a melancholy zero...
...Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there...
Despite his public image of lounge-lizard torpor, he doted on work. This accounts for his staggering creative output: he composed the music and lyrics for 281 songs, wrote 27 plays, a novel, five books of short stories and two volumes of autobiography. Amazingly, he could not read music. He hummed and whistled his tunes, and then played them by ear. One group of numbers is misty-eyed romantic, starlight-in-champagne (I'll Follow My Secret Heart, Zigeuner, Someday I'll Find You). The other group pinches a satiric nerve with droll spoofery (Mad Dogs and Englishmen...