Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have something to say about lineage. The fight is in Atlantic City instead of Las Vegas, which might be called the aging champion of fight towns if the challenger were not so decrepit. Atlantic City forces its smiles through neon casinos that, like gold crowns, only emphasize the surrounding decay. Similarly, Tyson is the younger party involved, but it hardly seems so. The boardwalk age guessers would be lucky to pick his century...
...Central America. Is it a phenomenal disaster that this money has not produced freedom and democracy, or even economic growth in Central America? Is it a mistake that all we have to show for our remarkable investment is protracted war, oppressive governments, increased drug traffic and economic and political decay? Or was this the point all along...
HONDURAS provides a fine counterpoint to this picture of chaos and decay. Honduras has long been our faithful pawn in Central America and thrives on our support. But last month, 2000 rioters took over the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and burnt two U.S. embassy buildings to protest the United States' illegal extradition of noted drug trafficker, Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. The riots were not in support of Matta, but in protest of the extradition of this Honduran citizen for crimes committed abroad, a direct violation of the Honduran Constitution...
...that the right books never get burnt. But the world has its quota of idiotic and vicious people just as it has its supplies of books that are vicious, trashy and witless. Books can eventually be as mortal as people -- the acids in the paper eat them, the bindings decay and at last they crumble in one's hands. But their ambition anyway is to outlast the flesh. Books have a kind of enshrining counterlife. One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of words and books that is terrifying...
...career families, and the premature influence of the sex-filled mass media. The diagnoses of both sociologists and moralists imply that we need to rebuild teens' social environments to condition young adults better. This is not a constructive recommendation, because it rests on the assumption of moral or social decay. Claiming that things were better in the good old days gets us nowhere...