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Word: adorned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such innocuous testimonials to man's urge to leave his mark adorn every accessible edifice, public park and mountainside in the world. In the same spirit in which schoolboys surreptitiously carve their initials on a desk, passers-by like to leave a record of their presence wherever they may go, either writing or carving their names and messages onto the nearest surface. Graffiti are simply man's attempt to proclaim his immortality against irreversible odds: he will die, but his name, crudely hewn in some rock of ages, will nevertheless endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Alfresco History | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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