Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate for President stood last week in a rubble-strewn lot in one of New York City's worst ghettos. Behind him, on the wall of a rundown tenement, was a one-word message of despair in orange paint: DECAY. On another nearby building was a scrawled reminder of what the neighborhood had received from white politicians in the past: BROKEN PROMISES. The candidate read a brief statement to reporters. Said he: "I'm impressed with the spirit of hope and determination by the people to save what they have." Hecklers in a crowd of 70 young black...
...thing, he faced an impossible level of 57% unemployment. Not-so-old hatreds began to resurface when changes were slow to occur. Drinking heavily, he began straying ever further from Mugabe's pragmatic politics. He accused more moderate black leaders of a "gangster mentality and leadership decay." He began to speak of himself as his party's "conscience...
Jarrell's attacks on such criticism, and on the dullness and decay of a culture that processed the word like any other commodity, became a standard turn in his later years. Like most of his writing, it was emphatically a performance: insistently personal in tone, a little self-consciously dazzling. As represented by two essays in this collection, The Taste of the Age and Poets, Critics, and Readers, it was also a performance that succeeded too well. How could readers be persuaded by the argument that grace and wit were dying out, when it was advanced with...
...positive side, cost of living adjustments have enabled Israelis to withstand the onslaught of triple-digit inflation without succumbing to the moral decay, disillusion with democratic institutions and political polarization that are normally associated with a prolonged period of soaring prices. Israelis have continued to save at their commendably high rate (24% of net personal income last year, vs. less than 5% in the U.S.). Because of the continual upward adjustments, the retired and disabled on pensions have not been reduced to poverty. And, despite the business turmoil caused by galloping costs, the country's economy grew last year...
Georgi is currently investigating how to use proton decay as a test of the unified theories...