Word: torpor
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...still has grace and charm; Bobby Van, in Ray Bolger's old role, has much of the master's ease and dexterity; Elaine Stritch stops the show with an aggressively lowdown warbling of an added song, You Took Advantage of Me. But for notable stretches there is torpor on 46th Street...
...late-at-night program telecast locally in New York City. In four months he has built up the same sort of fanatic following that once belonged to Jerry Lester and Dagmar. But, unlike the frenzied Broadway Open House, the Steve Allen Show is often relaxed to the point of torpor. Steve sits at a table, fidgeting with his mail, complaining about the public-address system, or asking unimportant questions of his off-camera crew. Sometimes he has his barber in to give him a haircut or has a meal served to him from a nearby restaurant. There is usually...
Despite the torpor of Washington's midsummer weather, the President of the U.S. reacted with vigor to last week's news. He conferred with John Foster Dulles and top military and diplomatic aides on the renewed Korean truce negotiations. In a shrewd diplomatic gesture, he offered $15 million worth of food to the people of East Germany. Then he turned to some distressed citizens of his own country...
Cambridge police, immigration officials, and a Hindu alien combined to excite 'Cliffe students out of exam period torpor with a 15-minute gun-point chase through the Annex yesterday...
Nobody professes to understand why. Disk jockeys' enthusiasm for Oh, Happy Day runs the gamut from torpor to disgust; they announce it with such words as "Here's one everybody is asking for-I don't know why." A Boston platter spinner called it "the worst record I ever heard"; one in Manhattan vowed to eat it if it ever became a hit. "Nobody seems to like it," says Cleveland's McClean, "except the people...