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...only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...
...weeks ago of reneging on his campaign promises to blacks, the President reacted heatedly and suggested that Jordan had been "demagogic." But Carter was sufficiently impressed by last week's criticism to promise that he would get started soon on a new urban policy to arrest the decay of the cities and provide more jobs. The emphasis would be on incentives for greater private investment in areas now shunned as too risky. The President asked the black leaders to "hang in there" until he got his policy under way. But that, in effect, is what he is asking...
...values that are often at radical odds with those of the majority?even the majority of the poor. Thus the underclass minority produces a highly disproportionate number of the nation's juvenile delinquents, school dropouts, drug addicts and welfare mothers, and much of the adult crime, family disruption, urban decay and demand for social expenditures. Says Monsignor Geno Baroni, an assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "The underclass presents our most dangerous crisis, more dangerous than the Depression of 1929, and more complex...
...method does not do away with the need to measure carbon 14, a radioactive atom that accumulates in all organisms while they live and decays at a known rate once they die. But it measures it in a different way. Current dating methods determine the age of an object indirectly, by measuring its carbon-14 radioactivity. The new technique being developed by Professor Harry Gove of Rochester and his fellow researchers measures the amount of carbon 14 directly. The scientists place a sample of the object to be evaluated in Rochester's tandem Van de Graaff particle accelerator...
...completed before her dramatic electoral defeat in March. But that hardly matters. If anything, the author seems to have preferred the emergency to the old-style Gandhianism of Morarji Desai, now the Prime Minister. The real crisis, writes Naipaul sadly, is neither political nor economic, but that of a decaying civilization whose "only hope lies in further swift decay." There is no clue as to the shape of the approaching apocalypse; only the chill warning that "the past has to be seen to be dead, or the past will kill...