Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politics. If McGovern can win without them, he will have proved that a candidate can bypass such traditional intermediaries and go directly to the people. He will have shown both the labor hierarchy and the big-city machine to be in a more advanced state of decay than anybody had thought. At this point it looks as if McGovern will have to do without their services. Both Meany and Daley have made it clear that they have been mortally offended, and neither is one to forgive or forget an insult, much less a public humiliation...
...decay of the antique buildings provides part of the reason, but San Quentin is also the victim of a spreading view that prisons simply do not work. Over the past two years, judges in Arkansas, California and Pennsylvania have ruled that certain local jails are so bad they violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One federal judge in Wisconsin, taking a slightly bolder view, recently wrote, "I am persuaded that the institution of prison probably must end." At last month's meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, California Deputy Attorney General Nelson...
Even the Enlightenment did not do the Devil in. Just as ancient Romans flocked to mystery cults in the days of religious and political decay, so do more modern men seek out the occult in times of stress or excessive pragmatism. The Victorian period saw one such flowering, the 1920s another. Now an occult revival has come to the space...
...intractable ailments of a postindustrial society-inflation, recession, pollution, alienation-he is confronted with peculiarly American conditions. These include the incredible ethnic diversity, with each group clamoring more loudly than ever for its rightful share in America; the racial conflict that now burdens every social transaction; the brutal decay of the great cities that divides the nation into the poor and black on the one hand and the affluent and white on the other. No people expect more than Americans. The President must somehow maintain the nation's freedoms and right to dissent without at the same time allowing...
...chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed or laziness is transforming Italy's historic centers into a chaotic urban wilderness, its coastline into holiday camps lapped by a salty chemical soup, and its museums and churches into understaffed, crumbling fermentation chambers where works of art sit and decay...