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That is the last thing he actually wants. His own power has been threatened not by a liberal Democrat who can be casually written off but by a loyal son of the machine-a sign of inner decay. By staying in the race, Hanrahan will boost the chances of the independent candidate for Governor, Dan Walker, a Chicago lawyer and onetime vice president of Montgomery Ward who authored the famed Walker Report on rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon...
...Marrow. The degradation of language parallels the decay of power and majesty. One workman, Glendenning (Tom Alkins), is a tongue-knotted baboon who cannot put his feet, let alone his words, where he wants to. With this handful of human rubble -stuttering, stumbling, abject-Storey evokes the race that gave the world the speech of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and Churchill...
...Decay. Up to a point, Bacon's art, in all its hazard and abiding strangeness, grows out of the terms of his life. Born in Ireland in 1909, a descendant of the great Elizabethan Sir Francis Bacon, he spent a childhood whose ambience was decayed status, country eccentricity and the violence of Irish civil war. When Francis was 17, his father caught him trying on his mother's underwear, and banished him from the house. With no special qualifications or ambition, Bacon drifted his way round Europe-to Berlin and afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior...
Willard Libby two decades ago, the clock depends on the decay of carbon 14, a radioactive isotope of ordinary carbon 12, which is nonradioactive and stable. Both forms of carbon are found in all living things, and their proportion remains constant during the life of the organism. New carbon of both forms is continuously added through normal metabolic processes. But when the organism dies and the intake of fresh material stops, this ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 begins to change. The amount of carbon 12 stays the same, but the unstable carbon 14 begins to disintegrate. The radioactive...
AMERICAN NOTES The Cities Revisited More than three years after the Kerner Commission analyzed the causes of the great urban riots of the 1960s, the racial ghettos of the U.S. are more than ever an environment of decay, distrust and despair. That is the conclusion of a report, "The State of the Cities." issued by a commission of the National Urban Coalition...