Word: withers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bumper stickers and other gimmicks they are turning out. The question remains though, about the purpose. It certainly doesn't seem logical to go to such lengths to create an on-going nationwide organization just to debunk official celebrations. Were that the case, the PBC could be expected to wither rather quickly away sometime around July 5, 1976 after a last gasp in Philadelphia. But they don't plan to go away...
...that Daly and Moulton are thrust into the tough situation of dealing with many diverse Cambridge groups. And they know that Bok wants his public relations men to exercise defensive talents, to spot troublemakers, neutralize them under a barrage of committees, interim reports and drafts, and then let them wither away, causing Harvard as little pain as possible...
...greater theatrical interest is one specific echo from Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author-that illusion transcends reality once solidly conceived characters make the quantum jump from the playwright's imagination to the living stage. The playwright will change, wither away and die; his characters will remain changeless...
...practical fields-environmental impact studies, population anthropology, natural-resources research and maritime ethnology (studies of fishermen often sponsored by the fishing industry). Said former A.A.A. President George Foster: "Unless we are able to train people to do new kinds of research and break down our false pride, we will wither on the vine...
...conservatives, of course, take an opposite view, especially in the wake of Concordia's astonishing rebound. Seminex, predicts Church President Preus, "will wither away in a couple of years." Preus dismisses talk of any actual schism. "E.L.I.M. is mainly a clergy movement," he observes. "There will not be any split, primarily because the lay people are not cranked up." Moreover, Preus insists, he is not going to do anything "to stir things up further." With the conservatives' firm grip on the seminaries, "there's no reason for heresy hunts in the parishes...