Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YUKIO MISHIMA committed suicide the day he completed Tennin Gosui, thus blending art and life inextricably into an eloquent statement of emptiness and silence. Now translated into English by Edward Seidensticker, The Decay of the Angel is the last volume of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility, which Mishima regarded as his greatest work. The four-part narrative follows the experiences and reflections of Honda Shigekuni, from his days as a student in Part One to his near senility in Part Four...
...Decay of the Angel is the story of Honda's involvement with a young man who appears to be a fourth incarnation in this series. Toru Yasunaga is a boy of sixteen, brilliant but poor, who works in a signal station adjoining a large harbor. Honda discovers him one day when out walking with a lady friend; when the boy reaches up to remove something from a shelf, the birthmark is revealed...
...bottle-laden table who declares, "One more won't hurt," and another man's gruff refusal to sign a petition to fight pollution. After the map is burned totally black, a wind begins to scatter the ashes and a deep, doom-ridden voice warns: "Great civilizations decay from within. But it's up to you. Will history repeat itself?" This apocalyptic message is not the handiwork of aging cynics gone sour on the American dream but of six Naperville, Ill., teenagers. Invited by A. Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency, to dream up a 60-second public...
Salvatore Polizzi, 43. No mere pulpit priest, the associate pastor of St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis spends most of his time on the streets of the Hill, the city's Italian district. Raised in St. Louis, Polizzi saw the beginnings of decay in the neighborhood and in 1964 formed Hill 2000-"because we plan on the Hill's being right here in the year 2000." Since then the neighborhood improvement organization has planted trees, renovated dozens of old homes to be sold cut-rate to young families, and run a popular educational summer youth program...
...college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding its clientele and focusing on such domestic problems as urban decay, education programs and future energy needs...