Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere has the decline of the U.S. been so evident as in the decay of our once proud space program. There can be no American Renewal unless we again explore the solar system as we did in the 1960s. A generation of young Americans is chomping at the bit wanting to carry the flag into space...
...Because various dating methods used by geologists, astronomers and paleontologists occasionally produce results that disagree, the whole system of dating the past is unreliable. Radioactive dating, they note, is based on the present rate of radioactive decay, but how do we know that the rate has always been the same...
...harried desk clerk (Peter Howard) is making wake-up calls and morosely entertaining the predictable series of complaints about noise, lack of hot water and general decay. (It sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm...
...Vienna of his day (1862-1931) was phosphorescent in decay: Schnitzler's contemporaries numbered Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler and Adolf Hitler. Schnitzler chose to puncture that neurasthenic society's pretensions to honor, its pursuit of frivolity and its moral numbness. He knew the absurdity of doubling one's speed when one has lost all sense of direction...
...hyper-inflation" that would do more than any lag in missile production to erode American power. And if President-elect Reagan tries to dodge this specter by cutting giant swaths in social spending to make up for the tax cuts and the arms budget, the resulting domestic decay and turmoil would prove far more costly and damaging than any "perceived loss of military parity." And the American society that refused to spend money on the well-being of its people for the sake of its armaments would be hardly worth defending...