Word: decays
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...source of my gloom as I trail American forces into Iraq. This melancholy is rooted in the apparent hopelessness of the environment. Anything more then a cursory glimpse around reveals that the Iraqi people, at least those living in this region, are completely beaten. Signs of physical decay and the population's broken spirits lie everywhere...
...world. But things have changed dramatically since the heyday of the Bastille. No longer can you find French prisoners stuffed away into dungeons in the bowels of weighty edifices. Even the French penal colonies of last century have withered away to nothing. The French prison has been in decay for years, and despite the embarrassment of recent days, there is no reason to think that French prisons will improve...
...world's few inhabited forts, and is home to some 2,000 people. But since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was the last filling station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route, Jaisalmer has been in decline. And over the past two decades, the decay has accelerated. Hundreds of historic buildings have crumbled like shortbread and dozens more are rapidly deteriorating. The arrival of thousands of tourists every year has also exacerbated the ruin...
Mann read an excerpt from the play, contrasting a police officer who decries the moral decay of his town with “Sister Boom Boom,” a gay man dressed as a Catholic nun—both people that Mann interviewed...
...easy to tell that from How to Be Alone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 278 pages), a collection of lucid, saturnine essays that have appeared in various magazines since 1994. Franzen is not the first serious writer to mourn the slow death of serious reading or to be worried about the decay of the moral imagination, each a continuing subtheme in a book that lights upon everything from the Chicago postal system to his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. But his estrangement is so persuasive that he makes alienation seem like the first sign of a healthy mind...