Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loved self-dramatization, Chambers attracted a group of fiercely loyal friends with his nonconformist personality, his brilliant-though often high-flown-writing style, the surprising spread of his scholarship, and, more important, his apocalyptic view of the world, which saw all mankind as threatened by moral decay...
...Decay: The theme of Harvard as a kind of graveyard, a might mausoleum runs through Cunliffe's piece as a leitmotif. He quotes a friend as predicting that Harvard may yet come to be called "the forest Lawn of the East Coast." He goes on: "the Lampoon used to be a funny magazine. Now it's like the embalmers' Monthly...
When one thinks of Boston, it is hard not to think of death and decay, decline and fall. Before we drop our tokens into the subway turnstyles and begin our survey, let me tender a well-meant suggestion that this matter of cemeteries recalls to mind. If you chance to take ill during the Summer School, ask to be admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, a fine place whose chief interest for us here is that the view of Boston from its roof is about the best in town. If you stay well, you can't possibly get up there...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). The road to hell in this case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
...Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...