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Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style...
...American press will think this was the case because this is all that has been reported for the past few weeks. They have shown no interest in Britain for months and years, ever since the war. Now all they do is describe Britain as being in a state of decay and one of perpetual crisis, which does not bear any relationship to the facts. For the past year, until this particular dispute with the miners, we have had a period of very great industrial peace and we have been extremely successful in dealing with wage-cost inflation." What the Prime...
...recognized as an "urban" spokesman, but he has accelerated the decay of Manhattan by starving New York City for funds. This he did partly to make potential political rival John Lindsay look...
...years ago there was one local documentary which the DuPont jurors found comparable in scope and technique to the best network product. This year there were dozens." The Columbia jurors, Barrett reported, found local stations taking on tough subjects-"the energy crisis, pollution, land use, law-and-order, urban decay, minorities, TV journalism itself"-and giving them "a human dimension, an originality and freshness, a broad-mindedness along with a specificity" that more generalized network programs rarely achieve. Given the hostility of Government, commercial sponsors and some program managers to on-the-air controversy, Barrett could only link the improvement...
These would prove central to his scientific romances of the 1890s: The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon. Wells saw in Darwinism the basic roots of man's decay: natural selection would eventually separate the weak and the strong into two distinct classes. The powerful class would oppressively dominate the subservient one, using it for whatever means it wished. This theme is best seen in The Time Machine, where the cave-dwelling Morlocks lord over the gentle, but inferior Eloi...