Word: decayed
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...them, so the present religions of India and the form of Buddhism that is practiced today in the Far East may contribute new elements to be grafted on to Christianity in days to come. And then one may look forward to what may happen when Caesar's Empire decays-for Caesar's Empire always does decay after a run of a few hundred years. What may happen is that Christianity may be left as the spiritual heir of all the other higher religions . . . while the Christian church as an institution may be left as the social heir...
...agnostic days Joad used to be fond of saying: "When the mind becomes old and begins to decay, it becomes matted with God-webs." Joad's own mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that could be cured by socialism, progressive schools and psychoanalysis. He now says with a grin: "In that view, a world of adequately psychoanalyzed Communists would be the millennium...
...unaware of the broader significance of their actions. They unquestioningly accepted their part in the expansion of empire, the spreading of religion, or the development of science and industry." But with the exhaustion of the European tradition, those who had the deepest sense of it were paralyzed by its decay. "Genius felt itself frustrated, and failed to guide. . . . Europe passed into the hands of those who had deliberately renounced the influence of the old tradition and had thus escaped the paralysis of its decay...
Tradition shrieks at this slight on beards. By heards, are pondering heads kept in that proper balance and angle for peering at the checkered battlefield. They filter the impulsive tang from fresh air, admitting only the essence of mouldering decay so much a part of chess atmosphere...
...Streetcar Named Desire* shows a Southern neurotic on the last lap of a downhill journey. Massed behind Blanche Du Bois are the genteel decay of her small-town forebears, the sudden suicide of her homosexual husband, the soiled annals of her nymphomaniac whoring, the loss of her reputation, her job and her home. Unable to face the truth, she has fashioned a dream world in which she is highbred, sought after and straitlaced. Her dream is her main luggage when she arrives destitute in New Orleans to "visit" her sister Stella and Stella's roughneck Polish-American husband Stanley...