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...case for charm--or the fourth quark--became much firmer when it was realized that there was a serious flaw in the familiar three-quark [flavor] theory, which predicted that "strange" particles would sometimes decay in ways that they did not. In an almost magical way, the existence of the charmed quark prohibits these unwanted and unseen decays, and brings the theory into agreement with experiment. Thus did my recent [1970] collaborators, John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I justify another definition of charm as a magical device to avert evil...
...IDEALISM'S decay has touched Torrijo. He has power, and to Greene that alone amounts to a loss of moral legitimacy. He never lashes into the General directly, as he follows him on one of his visits to the countryside. But the implication is there, all the more hard-hitting for Greene's matter-of-fact style...
...smoke, silence, emptiness and slow decay, an imperceptible leaching that was a strong smell long before it was a calamity. The knotting of the city's innards into dead hanks, not combustion, but blockage, the slowest cruelest death...
...that rate, the U.S. could save $50 billion if joblessness were reduced from the present 7.8% to 5%. More important, in human terms the long-term unemployed are a serious problem. The unemployment rate among blacks (12.7%) is dreadful. It slows overall black progress and contributes to the decay of the cities. As long as modern society encourages so many women to want to work, more jobs must be created for them as well as for teen-agers -the alternative being a nagging despair and disillusionment with the capitalist system. These are social problems not solvable by overall economic policy...
...what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...