Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such scenes can best be conveyed by the use of the word decadence, whose reality I first encountered in Weimar Germany, and which so easily turned into Hitler's Third Reich. In England they have coincided with the decline of British power and influence in the world, and the transformation of an empire on which the sun never set, into a ramshackle and absurd commonwealth in which it never rises. Whereas our grand fathers found their heroes in empire builders celebrated by Rudyard Kipling, we have had to make do with expertise in espionage celebrated by Ian Fleming...
...America, the most successful of all these virtuosos was John Singer Sargent, who became to the British Empire what Velásquez had been to the Habsburg court of Madrid or Sir Anthony van Dyck to Charles I: the official portraitist par excellence, the unrivaled chronicler of male power and female beauty at the top of the social heap. Sargent paid the penalty of success after he died in 1925. Reputations like his were exactly what the English defenders of modernism, starting with Roger Fry, felt most obliged to destroy...
...accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne and Bridge) Broke-and Democracy resumed her reign...
...want in a lifetime. The understated lines and craftsmanship of the Cartier tank watch, starting at $450, keep it as popular today as when Louis Cartier first designed it in 1917 to commemorate the U.S. Tank Corps in France Advertising campaigns, such as the one for Black & Decker power and home workshop tools, increasingly stress quality and craftsmanship. Thom McAn, once the proud purveyor of low-cost shoes for kids, now also promotes upscale footwear for women, and ads extoll features like cushioned and arched insoles for its new line of track shoes. Maytag Co. commercials emphasize that their repairmen...
...rising dramatically and the nation's economy slowing, people at last are conserving energy. Gasoline consumption in October was down almost 8% from year-earlier levels; diesel and home heating oil sales were off 6.9%. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency gave permission to New England's largest power plant, the Brayton Point utility in Somerset, Mass., to conserve more oil by converting two of its four generators to burn low-sulfur coal. The energy supply picture also looked a bit brighter because Texaco announced a new find of natural gas in the Baltimore Canyon off the New Jersey...