Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...validity of such visions and the nature of leadership itself depend very much on time and place, the deepest patterns of a society. Arnold Toynbee and Oswald Spengler constructed cyclical, organic theories of history. All civilizations, they said, passed through similar stages of growth and decay and eventually perished, whether from internal or external wounds. The 14th century Berber historian Ibn-Khaldun prefigured the idea by concluding that history repeatedly moves through the same cycles. According to Ibn-Khaldun's theory, a youthful, growing society is animated by asabiyya, the spirit of social solidarity found in what he called...
...Several rulers," he wrote, "have sought to cure the state and restore it to normal health. They think this decay is the result of incapacity or negligence in their predecessors. They are wrong. These accidents are inherent in empires and cannot be cured...
...course, one cannot complete the argument that religious faith promotes social and intellectual health unless he can demonstrate the converse, that the onslaught of atheism in our own century has been accompanied by decline on nearly all fronts. The arguments are obvious as regards war and social decay, but very obscure in the matter of scientific progress. Too many still confuse the undoubted technological progress of our times with increments of scientific theory...
...ghetto. It is natural enough for the middle class to pull out of the slums once they can afford to-just as other ethnic groups have done. But by leaving, they abandon those who cannot escape the ghetto to its more rapacious elements, aggravating the spread of crime and decay. Small wonder that middle-class blacks feel some guilt and ambivalence about fleeing to better neighborhoods...
...best known in the scientific world for her experimental demonstration of a nuclear theory--the non-conservation of parity in beta decay--suggested by two Nobel prize-winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang...