Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Insoluble" problems: inflation, unemployment, urban decay...
...some unearthly power, the dancers take turns falling out of the dance; two male dancers grasp the arms of a girl, she falls straight back like a statue knocked over, and is dragged dramatically off stage. Players move on and off the stage, a recurring theme of growth and decay as the numbers of dancers increases and decreases...
Romney argued that housing is not the cause of urban decay. "We will not solve this crisis if we pretend that it is just a housing crisis. Housing didn't take the jobs away. Housing didn't reduce the population. Housing didn't bring the drug addiction...
Obsession with vulgarity and physical decay? Look around. The bookstores, the grind houses. That's not even sex, it's cold cuts. And the shlock stores are shlockier. I saw a brass statue of a guy rolling a stone up a hill. Underneath it was a label: "That's life." The myth of Sisyphus became a piece of shoddy merch...
...more regrettable than such thesis twisting is the author's failure to recognize that the case against the WASP has already been made-by WASPS. From Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James through Sinclair Lewis and J.P. Marquand, the WASP novelist has chosen as a favorite theme the moral decay within his breed...