Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very idea of decadence, with all its fleshly titillations and metaphysical phosphorescence, excites that kind of Spenglerian anxiety. A lot of Americans seem inclined to think of themselves as a decadent people: such self-accusation may be the reverse side of the old American self-congratulation. Americans contemplate some of the more disgusting uses to which freedom of expression has been put; they confront a physical violence and spiritual heedlessness that makes them wonder if the entire society is on a steep and terminal incline downward. They see around them what they call decadence. But is the U.S. decadent? Does...
...case, decadence is too much a word of simplification. The U.S. is too complicated, housing too many simultaneous realities, to be covered with one such concept. Sub cultures of decadence exist, as they have in all societies. The amplifications of the press and television may make the decadence seem more sensational and pervasive than it really...
Most workers were optimistic that the strike would end soon. "Things at the school seem to be running on schedule, but much of the internal paperwork has slowed down," union member Judy Riordan said yesterday...
...with incompetent managers for the past decade, Chrysler is now close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler off as a bad risk: the Federal Reserve concluded last week that the commercial banks have only lent Chrysler 50 per cent of the credit they can legally extend...
...Chrysler seemed to think it had the government coming and going. If the legislator or bureaucrat, ignorant of Chrysler's history, accepted the blame for Chrysler's failure, then it would seem that the government would have little choice but to bail the company out. If not, Chrysler points to the plants in your state that would shut down, citing the hundreds of thousands of workers who would be unemployed...