Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Credo," was written in 1936; it was an examination of a phenomenon that still existed. Stavisky is nostalgia for two things--first, for the eternal appeal of the rogue, the high-energy, affable cheap who spends more money than he screws out of other people; second, for the miasma of the thirties, the thrill of the moment when you can no longer be sure that the roller coaster you're on is going to carry you up again, and you just lay back and abandon yourself to the pleasures of a swift rocketing downwards...
Ever since New Year's Day, a familiar sight has been missing from Gary, Ind. For the first time in years, there is no miasma of smoke over U.S. Steel's Open Hearth Mill No. 4-a complex of ten 65-year-old furnaces that annually produce 960,000 tons of steel and, as an unwelcome byproduct, 2,700 tons of airborne grit. Because it claims that it cannot curb the fumes right now, the company has shut down the mill. The decision could cost 2,500 employees their jobs in a city with an unemployment rate already...
...survey found a miasma of fear and confusion over inflation. Some 80% now report daily concern about high food prices (up 9 points since May), 27% worry a lot about losing their jobs (up 12 points), and 54% are very apprehensive that their savings will be wiped out by inflation (up 13 points). Looking ahead, 86% anticipate that prices will continue to rise; 73% expect a further increase in unemployment...
This done, she allowed herself to clothe the rest of the problem in a miasma of emotion, focusing on the very real sufferings of the Jews in Europe, accepting the premise of both Kenan and Harkavi that the struggle of the Palestinians against Zionism and the Arab states against Israel were essentially a continuation of the oppression of Jews in Europe...
...Kennedy Library has become simply boring. The City Council and the Library Corporation had better decide what they want--most likely a compromise of just a library without the tourist-generating museum--and pull us out of the 12-year miasma before August 1 when the MBTA vacates the land...