Word: decay
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Even the Enlightenment did not do the Devil in. Just as ancient Romans flocked to mystery cults in the days of religious and political decay, so do more modern men seek out the occult in times of stress or excessive pragmatism. The Victorian period saw one such flowering, the 1920s another. Now an occult revival has come to the space...
...intractable ailments of a postindustrial society-inflation, recession, pollution, alienation-he is confronted with peculiarly American conditions. These include the incredible ethnic diversity, with each group clamoring more loudly than ever for its rightful share in America; the racial conflict that now burdens every social transaction; the brutal decay of the great cities that divides the nation into the poor and black on the one hand and the affluent and white on the other. No people expect more than Americans. The President must somehow maintain the nation's freedoms and right to dissent without at the same time allowing...
...chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed or laziness is transforming Italy's historic centers into a chaotic urban wilderness, its coastline into holiday camps lapped by a salty chemical soup, and its museums and churches into understaffed, crumbling fermentation chambers where works of art sit and decay...
...Insoluble" problems: inflation, unemployment, urban decay...
...some unearthly power, the dancers take turns falling out of the dance; two male dancers grasp the arms of a girl, she falls straight back like a statue knocked over, and is dragged dramatically off stage. Players move on and off the stage, a recurring theme of growth and decay as the numbers of dancers increases and decreases...