Word: decay
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...Bonn Correspondent Lee Griggs was also struck by the poor conditions he encountered as he traveled to U.S. bases across West Germany. Says Griggs: "There is a great deal of concern here that the situation could possibly undermine morale and thus military preparedness. It is an appalling story of decay and neglect...
...cocaine [July 6] is more evidence of the rottenness and decay of our society. We beat our chests and proclaim ourselves the strongest and most powerful country on earth, but our enemies know destruction will come from within...
...zealots of the New Right, intent on proving their political muscle. TV, moreover, is omnipresent in home and family life, and Christian conservatives see the family as endangered. They contend that TV reflects-indeed, often promotes-the gratuitous sex, profanity and violence of contemporary society, thus bringing moral decay into the home...
...they are. Forss's birthplace in the South Bronx, for instance: "My neighborhood's not there any more. It's underground; it's bricks." Wealthier areas of the city decay and change less rapidly, but even the center of Manhattan is a mobile of concrete, stone and steel. The camera's lens fixes the flux. When the eye behind it is guided with sufficient knowledge, a magical transformation can happen: a permanent image supersedes its transient subject. It is hard to put a value on such an event, although $6 seems a little low. What...
Ages are to be compared not by numbers but by the best in them. And the best souls in our age pale before the best souls in the past. The decay of respect for the past, the decay of respect for authority, the decay of the notion of the classics -these are the banes...