Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parties, or education, or traffic-but the whole thing, the whole enterprise. It is for this reason that we tend to be manic-depressive in our view of ourselves: one moment the greatest, strongest country on earth, the hope of the world; the next moment on the brink of decay and disaster. That is why American patriotism can be so strident, so naive, so defensive. The fiercest insistence that this is God's country, the most devout treatment of the flag as an icon, suggest an inner doubt, a sense of impermanence and vulnerability. The trouble is not excessive...
...American city is commonly portrayed as hovering on the brink of decay and disaster. Is this picture overdrawn? Indeed it is, according to a recently published book, The Unheavenly City, that has found favor with the Nixon Administration and has aroused considerable controversy among academicians. Combining a ruthless logic of argument with an engaging tolerance of tone, Edward Banfield, 53, professor of urban government at Harvard, contends that many urban problems are largely imaginary. In fact, says Banfield, the cities are performing better than ever...
...secret of the man has always been his wit. His sense of humor overcomes the grotesque spectacle of being stranded in Los Angeles, that sub-Fellinian mammalian circus. His wit has also prevented the vegetative decay which afflicts so many old artists. The man who has known and worked with almost every major artist in this country, has lived in Los Angeles with Huxley, Isherwood, Mann, and Schocnberg, and seen all but Isherwood pass away, is essentially a happy spirit...
...tortured and twisted, shorn of limbs, reduced to a skeleton, provoking comparisons with Dürer and Cranach, Redon and Bellmer. Death, he seemed to say, is in all life, deformity in all beauty, and behind the erotic daydream is the ever-present nightmare of flesh doomed to decay. Today, his figures appear more whole, more sensuous, more magnetic. Love has banished dreadful death...
...American population grows, the nation's economy pushes its way over other peoples so that its inhabitants can enjoy a higher and higher standard of living. Per capita consumption of commodities and services in the U. S. continues to rise. Billions of dollars are required to halt the continuing decay of a nation where a gutting progress is its most important product. The billions of dollars of anti-pollution funds would be reinvested to re-invigorate the American economy, making its oppressions all the more efficient...