Word: torpor
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...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...
Such a one is Danilo Dolci, a 41-year-old Italian who for 14 years has headed a volunteer movement designed to lift a few Sicilian villages out of a squalor unmatched in Europe and to raise the inhabitants from the torpor of despair. Dolci (TIME, April 9, 1956) has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, denounced by the Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo; he has won the support of many Communists and some Jesuits, been threatened by the Mafia, and been prosecuted for obscenity by the Italian government for his book Report from Palermo. In common with most...
...intrusion of a U.S. Army major with vague psychological problems stirs the inhabitants of Greenmont from their smug torpor into some kind of malice. The major's crime is that he has seduced (or has been seduced by) a thirtyish spinster of the Greenmont tribe. Before the major can be pecked to death by ducks, he is mercifully immolated in a forest fire...
...being male they in no way interfere with their being human: the two go along in the same direction: forward. But as soon as a woman starts trying to live up to her femininity first and foremost, it directly conflicts with her humanity. It pulls her down into sex, torpor, uncreativeness, dependency, subordination. All of these can have a part in her life, but not the basic part...