Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole country seemed insane: wherever he looked, he said, "barbarism prevailed." In bold, sure strokes he drew gluttons, drunks, lechers, murderers. He drew officers, paunchy businessmen, high society women with animal appetites and animal indifference to the suf fering of others. It was a world of sadism and decay hiding behind a facade of monocles and iron crosses. From time to time Grosz was arrested and fined, but he kept up the attack until he crossed the Atlantic...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...
...apparent now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imaginations, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...
...left no track on the photographic plate as it careened through the bubble chamber. To locate anti-Xi-zero, the physicists first had to find the byproducts of the collision that produced it. These visible byproducts could only have been balanced by the invisible anti-Xi-zero, which would decay an instant later, leaving visible debris. Of the 300,000 photographs they examined, only three showed the predicted evidence of collision and decay that could only have come from anti-Xi-zero...
...clear now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imagination, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...