Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World as Wilderness. Muggeridge is compulsively nasty to politicians, whatever their party. "Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting. He exuded a flavor of mothballs." Churchill, whose writings were "gaseous and overwritten," became a "kind of totem." In his old age, he was "produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side...
NOBODY is mad at monarchy these days. Britain's angry John Osborne can sneer: "My objection to the royal symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that...
...Throughout all history, whenever a society became hedonistic and on the road to decay, people have fallen for such take-no-thought-of-the-morrow nonsense. Only a part of wasted material is recoverable. The air we breathe is being polluted by fumes from automobiles and factories. Our rivers, lakes and ocean fronts are being destroyed by pouring into them human and factory wastes. One of the worst polluters is the paper industry. How can we return to the soil the chemically treated wood waste now going into our rivers...
...aged Corbaccio, it is true, has an elderly look about him. But the hair-spray and bent condition with which Alec Walker achieves his decay have fake written all over them. Besides, Corbaccio really looks the right age for Volpone, Volpone for Mosca, and Mosca for the young Bonario, who, as played by Jim Brook, might be a recent graduate of Miss Hewett's Nursery School for the Self-Conscious Aesthete...
Nonetheless he rarely hides his distaste for anti-Vietnam protests or other signs of what he feels is moral and political decay. Reagan would like to see the noon-time political rallies moved from the Sproul Hall steps--near a major entrance to the University campus--to a more remote location where "no one will be forced to listen." Chancellor Heyns, to help the state government resist the temptation to interfere, may do just that...