Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ills they are intended to cure. Beyond that, the viability of Lenin's thought has been affected by social changes he did not, indeed could not, account for. Like many another Marxist, he grossly underrated the productive vitality and capacity for change in what he considered a moribund capitalist world. Lenin also did not have to confront today's youth. There is a fine irony in the fact that in many nations the revolutionary party he helped create is regarded as reactionary by the anti-Establishment young-witness the ferocious diatribes against French Communism by students involved...
Ravaged by internal bickering, defeatism and campaign debts of $8.3 million, the Democratic Party these days has a moribund air. Last week, nonetheless, there were signs of life...
...tries to go to the end of his idea." His films have always been pieces of criticism, visual essays about ideas and culture in a declining West. He was never interested in making "good art." That notion of finely wrought and finished work was itself the legacy of a moribund sensibility...