Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That solemn judgment echoes through the works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
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...know McDonald, the policeman who arrested Oswald? Well, we had him up here. Gave...
...covered up a case as sensitive as that, what have they done with others?" This same cadre of officials, for example, failed last year to find the bureau man who, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, ordered a Dallas agent to destroy a note written by Lee Harvey Oswald before the killing...
...elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called in to examine him. West said he found Ruby to be mentally ill and recommended treatment...