Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through which the American conscience presently drifts, it is increasingly difficult to be outraged by anything anymore. The moral corpse of the American myth, that Cold War belief that the U.S. was the guardian of liberty" the world over, has had so many autopsies that the stench of its decay no longer offends our senses--we are deadened...
...desert that lap across each other here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our headlights in smoothflowing creaminess, the antlers pierce mutely our forward fall: motionless, steady in their chrome cage, at the fore of our seamless void, too strong, too immutable in their decay for our quick-lipped, easy spun gasp of time...
...Lafayette Cemetery Number One does not have its admirers. One of them is a photographer I know who, the last time I saw him and asked him how he was doing, smiled broadly, spread his arms and said, "I've decided Im going to become the chronicler of the decay of New Orieans". He was answering my question pobliquely; that is to say, he was saying he was happy. He had just combleted a sort of spiritual apprenticeship another, older photographeer who had spent his life taking pictures of old plantations crumbling to dust and being overtaken by vines...
...York art world, especially in its present decay, is the easiest target a pop sociologist could ask for. Most of it is a wallow of egotism, social climbing and power brokerage, and the only thing that makes it tolerable is the occasional reward of experiencing a good work of art in all its richness, complexity and difficulty. Take the art from the art world, as Wolfe does, and the matrix becomes fit for caricature. Since Wolfe is unable to show any intelligent response to painting, caricature is what we get: a rehashed conspiracy theory...
...require such an augmented arsenal just at the moment when its vast expenditures in Southeast Asia had ended? Liberals such as Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy argued for reordered priorities. Said Minnesota's Walter Mondale: "We have kept our military machine polished but have let our cities decay, our transportation systems collapse, our national unity dissolve." A counterargument held that a reduction in defense spending would actually damage the domestic economy by throwing thousands out of work. The liberals' central argument was that, as Kennedy said, with 22,000 tactical nuclear weapons stockpiled round the world, "we have nuclear...