Word: torporous
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While Kennedy cannonballed, McCarthy's campaign seemed to be suffering from what he likes to call "acedia" -spiritual torpor. He displayed perhaps his best form of the week when he joined a pepper game with reporters outside a Muncie Westinghouse plant and poled three line drives practically out of the factory grounds. More than normally disorganized, McCarthy appeared late for speeches, found his audience sparse and unresponsive. Part of the problem was financial. Though he does not lack for potential campaign contributors, the Minnesotan's nonchalance in seeking funds has left his forces with $100,000 in debts...
...talk is expected to drone on until midweek, when the Senate begins a seven-day recess to permit Republican orators to scatter for Lincoln's Birthday addresses. Soon thereafter, the Democrats take their turn with a Jefferson-Jackson Day recess. Thus far, the Senate's torpor has mattered little, since its calendar is empty of business. Incredibly, with crises pressing in from all sides, the world's greatest deliberative body simply has nothing else to deliberate about...
Take François, a sort of negative hippie, a dropout from life. He has left his teaching job and lives aimlessly in a provincial city. His is a regimen of compulsive torpor in which nothing matters. He breaks up with his girl, vegetates, carelessly sets his room afire, goes pointlessly and without remorse to confession, commits a senseless murder, makes up lists of the names of cars that go by. His life is hallucinatory and also quite literally his hell...
...Economic torpor this year has gripped not only Britain but also much of continental Europe. Braked by West Germany's first major postwar recession and by sluggish business in France, the Common Market is headed for the slowest expansion in its ten-year history. In its third quarterly report, the Brussels-based EEC Commission has just concluded that the total output of goods and services in the Six will rise only 2½% in 1967, after discounting inflation...
...about latent homosexuality, adultery, and various forms of human perversion, Reflections in a Golden Eye moves pretty slowly. John Huston's latest offering glides languidly through a series of loosely-tied scenes, punctuated by flashes of nudity (male and female) and spasms of sudden violence. The movie's general torpor is heightened by someone's decision, presumably Huston's to shoot through a filter that allowed only forms of red to record properly. All other colors show up black and white but red all over. It is difficult to go through the film without idly wondering if you'll recognize...