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...unarticulated line "adds to the decay and the transitional nature of the community," Herold said. "Our aim is to keep the neighborhood stabilized and get people...
...people encouraged to believe that brave acts and sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...anticipate events (E.S.P.) or to effect physical changes by sheer will power (psychokinesis). He had electrodes implanted in the brains of rats in a zone where stimulation gave the animals intense pleasure. The stimuli were delivered at random intervals by a computer that in turn was keyed to the decay of atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence the decay of the radioactive source by psychokinesis, their pleasure score would exceed...
YUKIO MISHIMA committed suicide the day he completed Tennin Gosui, thus blending art and life inextricably into an eloquent statement of emptiness and silence. Now translated into English by Edward Seidensticker, The Decay of the Angel is the last volume of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility, which Mishima regarded as his greatest work. The four-part narrative follows the experiences and reflections of Honda Shigekuni, from his days as a student in Part One to his near senility in Part Four...
...Decay of the Angel is the story of Honda's involvement with a young man who appears to be a fourth incarnation in this series. Toru Yasunaga is a boy of sixteen, brilliant but poor, who works in a signal station adjoining a large harbor. Honda discovers him one day when out walking with a lady friend; when the boy reaches up to remove something from a shelf, the birthmark is revealed...