Word: withering
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...academicism, administrators and even students have forgotten that spoofing authority, raiding girls' colleges, and generally raising hell can be a good and integral part of the undergraduate experience. It would be sad indeed to see the Harvard Band, the last practitioner of the dying art of being in undergraduate, wither away...
...Though Khrushchev has dismantled much of Stalin's police state, he has shrewdly rebuilt the Communist Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people's militia," and a reorganized political police whose new role is that of "friend and helper," Khrushchev has effectively replaced full-scale terror with the Orwellian technique of "mass discipline...
...Europe (e.g., a London shop sells a fine cut-glass Georgian decanter, circa 1770, for $15; or, for the collector's library, Discovery of a World in the Moone, written in 1638 by Bishop Wilkins of Chester, for $75). And certified antiques are items that age cannot wither nor Customs nail-they are still 100% duty-free...
...tradition of mooning, a tradition to which Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, and William Saroyan, at his infrequent best, belonged. But where Frankie shed her fantasies for the more abundant life of growing up, the characters in the current novel are stripped of their fantasies only to wither away. Clock Without Hands is thus a kind of Member of the Funeral. Death is admittedly the theme Novelist McCullers chose for her novel, but its dark and powerful presence is not felt. Instead, there is only death's counterfeit, the absence of life...
Khrushchev's final promise was that "the present generation of Soviet people will live under Communism." On that day of the true "classless society," according to Marx, the state is supposed to wither away. Khrushchev makes no such promise. "The party holds," he says, "that the dictatorship of the working class [i.e., party] will cease to be necessary before the state withers away." But "to ensure that the state withers away" completely will require "the final settlement of the contradictions between capitalism and Communism in the world arena in favor of Communism." Shrimps will whistle first, comrades...