Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually decay, Ramesses' achievements were truly magnificent...
...novel is continuing proof that Garcia is the master of putting a lot of story into a small space. Spanish austerity, religious authority, classical humanism and African animism compete in a tight setting of cultural decay and utter remoteness. "The city lay submerged in its centuries-long torpor" pretty much sums up the situation. When Mar?a asks Father Cayetano what is on the other side of the ocean, he answers wistfully, "The world...
...Soviet Union was saved only to eventually decay and collapse. On this anniversary of V-E day, the old soldiers' children are assessing the past as well, but they have neither tragedy nor triumph to commemorate. Their stories are of disillusionment and despair...
Jennifer S. Frautschi '95-'97 concurs about the abysmal state of dating interactions. "The dates I've purportedly been on have been miscommunication dates. I've been unaware that they were dates, where as the other half thought they were dates. Such miscommunication leads to murder, stalking, and the decay of Western civilization...
...DIFFICULTY FACING HARTFORD, Connecticut, is by now a familiar one: an inner-city public school system burdened by structural decay and besieged by the pathologies of urban poverty. But while money certainly seems in short supply, what is more troubling here is the isolation in which Hartford's students--94% of them African American or Hispanic, nearly 3 out of 4 poor, with a high school dropout rate more than three times the state average--find themselves: a sort of walled city, separated from less troubled suburbs by an invisible color line drawn not by law but by decades...