Word: decay
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...Decay: The theme of Harvard as a kind of graveyard, a might mausoleum runs through Cunliffe's piece as a leitmotif. He quotes a friend as predicting that Harvard may yet come to be called "the forest Lawn of the East Coast." He goes on: "the Lampoon used to be a funny magazine. Now it's like the embalmers' Monthly...
When one thinks of Boston, it is hard not to think of death and decay, decline and fall. Before we drop our tokens into the subway turnstyles and begin our survey, let me tender a well-meant suggestion that this matter of cemeteries recalls to mind. If you chance to take ill during the Summer School, ask to be admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, a fine place whose chief interest for us here is that the view of Boston from its roof is about the best in town. If you stay well, you can't possibly get up there...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). The road to hell in this case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
...brothers" are an oddly matched pair of students at Oxford: stocky, crew-cut Bob McNair from Canada and tall, black Daudi Mukasa from Uganda. Both view the great world of Europe with the eyes of provincials, but where McNair sees purpose and proportion, Mukasa finds only disillusionment and decay. It is one of the book's first ironies that Mukasa, who rejects Europe, is more successful in terms of popularity and girls than McNair, who loves...
...Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...