Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agronomists have managed to calculate and predict crop disasters, but when it comes to urban blights, no one has devised a coherent method for measuring them, let alone overcoming them. Poverty, crime, narcotics, pollution and sheer physical decay are the new locusts, as terrifyingly confusing as Egypt's plagues...
...will give the city a stake in development of new communities outside the city," said Locke. "We're trying to develop a new lifestyle to overcome social problems. This entire region will stand or fall together. Today, there are people living in a sea of social and economic decay while affluence blooms around them. If the present situation continues, the city will be dead in ten years, and the suburbs will go in the eleventh...
...suburbs burgeon while America's central cities decay, and no one has yet devised a solution to the complex of economic, racial and environmental issues involved. Last week a group of Detroit planners unveiled a radical attempt at an answer: a symbiotic linking of the center city with new towns in the suburbs. The plan, which was developed by the Metropolitan Fund of Detroit, a nonprofit research corporation in Southeast Michigan working with a $100,000 appropriation, envisions the pairing off of nine redeveloped inner-city areas with ten undeveloped suburban locations. Though each pair of sites would...
...went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin savoring every execution like a raspberry...
...feedback starts. And I stop the string at a rhythmic interval. So that I have . . . if I were to draw a picture of the tone, it would be just about the reverse of what a guitar tone normally is, where you have a heavy attack and then a slow decay. Because it's the other way around, it decays in and attacks off . So I use it as a rhythmic device more than anything else. But you know, the more it happens, the more I know about it and the more ideas I get for it and so forth...