Word: elysiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting the first glimpses of the end of the Age of Warfare, a time when it has it has become both avoidable and unprofitable. Conservatives will scoff and claim that war is forever and we must be ever vigilant. Liberals will applaud the new era, believing the Elysium will come with the cessation of national violence...
...sense, irresistible: after all, paradises cannot get better any more than children can grow purer. Each passing season (and each passing tourist) can only bring to the world's forgotten areas new developments--and in a never-never land, any development is a change for the worse. Elysium cannot be universally enjoyed until it has been discovered, and once it is discovered, it is lost...
...dull, pretentious and nervous" appears to parrot Mazursky's dislike of Hollywood tinsel. And when in an interview he says. "America has become kind of decadent; a lot of things have been too easy," he echoes his own screenplay of Phillip castigating Antonia and Alonzo for invading the Elysium he has created on a remote Greek isle. "I found paradise," his character says, "and you turned it into a slum...