Word: miasma
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...just God, but belief itself seems to be dying, suggests Nourissier: there is a miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...
Whether McGill's New South will somehow escape the miasma of the Northern ghettos, or whether the tentative displays of good faith in Atlanta will harden into cynicism as bigotry yields to black economic stagnaton, remains to be seen. For now, McGill is still testy and hopeful...
...review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work, the court begins hearing oral arguments in three cases that will plunge it right back into a familiar miasma-obscenity...
...Year, for weathering the Algerian crisis and setting in motion long-overdue internal reforms: "Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
...angry thunderheads. A repeated gesture shows man against himself, his arms raised threateningly over his own head. But Osborn's most powerful image is also the simplest. In his Homage to Medgar Evers, the Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. leader shot in the back, a human figure is recognizable in a miasma of charcoal only because one fiery tracer plunges down a pathway of death and blows out his life...