Word: turgidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...code is expected to be adopted at the next OECD conference of foreign ministers, scheduled for June 21. The question is: Will the code make any difference? The OECD has no power to enforce its injunctions. Furthermore, the code is written in such turgid bureaucratese that many of the 29 commandments are vague and imprecise...
...Oscar-winning vehicle of two years back. Like Lemmon, Reynolds is forced to reminisce fondly about the putative glories of eras past-ballplayers, bands, movies-and wrestle with a numbing dose of angst. Although Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) does all he can to enliven this turgid material with sleazy jokes, low-down sex and a little violence, he cannot manage to stifle Shagan's sermon. Aldrich is like a kid passing around a dirty magazine while the preacher drones on from the pulpit above...
Soon the lines begin to intersect and merge until they form broad and turgid rivers of money and authority, sometimes augmented and rechanneled by state agencies. In a nearly futile attempt to keep the lines distinguishable on the chart, they are rendered in eight varieties-including dots, diagonals, dashes, and dashes and dots. At the bottom, where the confusion is such that arrows are necessary to direct traffic, await the beneficiaries of the programs voted by Congress. They are divided into a mind-boggling 59 categories: Residents of Rat Infested Areas of Selected Cities, Residents of Critical Health Manpower Shortage...
...occasion piece. Wagner accepted, perhaps because he was going broke mounting the first Ring cycle. He also hoped "soon to be assured of the American visitors" at Bayreuth. The American festivities opened in Philadelphia, May 10, 1876, with the composer's Centennial March. The work, a turgid blend of bathos and pomposity, turned out to be one of Wagner's very worst...
Power Base. Etzioni's main theoretical effort and "life's work" is The Active Society, a long and turgid treatise on how to use the levers of social change. In it, Etzioni explains how social progress requires consensus and a power base to protect and promote change. Thus he considered Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty a doomed effort from the start because it gave the poor authority without a power base. He also opposes school busing as a means of integration because no consensus for it exists. "If you want it, fine-go out and convince...