Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct in your assessment "that a nation's most fundamental social-welfare obligation to its citizens is to defend them against attack." But which attack is more real, a presupposed threat from without, or the threat of cities in decay, rampant inflation, a raging crime rate...
...psychological essay probes the mood of the painter, analyzing Van Gogh's artistic devices. Schapiro points to the loss of focus, the uncertain movement and orientation and the unstable brush strokes that contrast with the painter's style in earlier pictures. In addition to noting Van Gogh's stylistic decay Schapiro adds that the painter was aware of this decay; thus his unusual attempt at structuring a painting...
...weak" forces were labeled to resolve a separate contradiction--the curious, so-called "beta-decay" of certain nuclei. Thus, if Einstein's unified field theory was to be vindicated, all these forces had somehow to be reconciled--proven to be aspects of the same force...
...intellectuals decided that spiritual corruption had begun to decay American life. They pointed to a society burdened with the "national disease" of success. Middle class respectability had become a form of living death. A new, "restless generation" had committed itself to early marriages and children, thereby cheating itself of its youth...
While by the early '60's Podhoretz still admired the humane values and vision that Students for a Democratic Society and other radical groups continued to promulgate, he had begun to believe that their appraisal of American cultural decay was exaggerated, unwarranted and dangerous. Podhoretz' complete divorce from radicalism came after the riots at Berkeley in 1968. He decided that violence had been done to "language and ideas." The rational arguments of earlier radicalism had been replaced by "direct action" based on the assumption that "there was no longer anything to argue about except the choice of means...