Word: contagion
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NUMEROUS EXPLANATIONS can be offered for the "eerie" complacency which pervades campuses across the nation. The mysterious contagion has infected every aspect of life within the Harvard community, from politics to curricular reform...
...distaste for mechanization, my preference for the four-footed over the four-wheeled ("A horse is at least human, for God's sake")-well, that has become a contagion by now. As has that yearning for Thoreauesque communal living in New England: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out . . . We could live somewhere with a brook and all and ... I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime...
Germany's worst strike in eight years is only the latest example of the contagion of labor unrest sweeping Europe. In Britain, strikes have cost 13 million work days this year. In Sweden, a siege of labor trouble affected almost every segment of the work force, including teachers, civil servants and army officers. The situation has been worst of all in Italy where, since the au-tunno caldo (hot autumn) of 1969, total labor costs have risen...
...uneasy half-century under this arrangement, the age-old religious hatred, social injustice and tribal attitudes persist, making future peace a questionable prospect. In 1615 Barnaby Rich wrote in his Anatomy of Ireland: "The diseases of Ireland are many, and the sickness is grown to that of a contagion that is almost past cure." His admonition, sadly, is still relevant...
...look at an image like Campbell's Soup Can, 1965, is not to see it through Warhol's eyes-he has eliminated all idiosyncrasies. There is no contagion of personality. What remains is the flat, mute face of an actuality presented as meaning nothing beyond itself. When Warhol's series of cans, dollar bills, stickers and movie stars appeared in the early and middle '60s, they were thought ironic, an indictment of consumer culture; and a Goyaesque mordancy was attributed to his silk-screen portraits. Because it was deemed improper for an artist...