Word: decay
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...reading your article concerning returning vets [Jan. 12], I was deeply ashamed of my country and fellow citizens. A nation that can afford to ignore and reject the people who defend it is marked by hypocrisy and decay. No government project can compensate completely. The gratitude for the personal sacrifice and danger these men endured must come from the people...
...typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room is now crumbling in decay. Once rich and powerful, his kingdom is now poor, famished and depopulated. His erstwhile magnificent army has dwindled to a single guard, and life-the ultimate deserter-is about to flee his court...
...gallon jug with not much more than a quart of water." Armies of undergraduates are demanding more teaching attention; at the same time, governments are pleading for more research, which requires new emphasis on graduate studies, and the cities are begging for ideas to help check their spiraling decay...
...include only two more flights to the planets: a pair of photographic flybys of Mars in 1969. Criticizing both Congress and the reluctance of NASA "to forcefully request adequate funding," Van Allen also warned that the U.S. "is now allowing its own high competence in planetary exploration to decay...
Sally's Hounds is the story of a confused, moody young man named John, of his placidly domestic love relation with Kate, its progressive decay under the influence of his growing fascination with the mysterious Sally, and, finally, of his own violent destruction. It is a strong, simple story, and Edlestein has had the good judgment and integrity to treat it absolutely seriously. His film seldom veers toward the melodramatic and never toward easy undercutting of his characters and their hang-ups. He has set himself a hard task, balancing his story on the fine line between the maudlin...