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...Babylonian scholars compiled a text on "Style and Form of Hieroglyphics." Any nabob with alert ears and open eyes can natter negativism about decadence in American, verbal or otherwise. More important than the fact of degeneracy are the reasons behind it. Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking down and correct expression is considered almost a badge of dishonor." Deterioration thus stems from large changes the country underwent...
Social Peace. Stehlin's assessment was perceived as a vicious stab at the national honor. Gaullist Party Leader Alexandre Sanguinetti howled that his remarks were "an aggression against the nation as a whole." As a result of the furor, Stehlin was forced to resign as vice president of the Assembly, and last week the government ordered him to retire from the air force reserve...
...revolver, a pair of glasses-was scattered about as the parade of investigators swelled. Blood samples were gathered and tested haphazardly, leaving gaps in later reconstructions of the murders. During the LaBianca investigation the next day, a coroner's assistant failed to take the dimensions of the stab wounds...
...neatly split into only two periods. At first he felt uncomfortable in his world, and rejected its economic organization, social structure, and sexual practices; even nature, things like landscape and weather, seemed sick and threatening. Auden himself, in a poem in this book called "Thanksgivings," takes a stab at explaining why he abandoned this radical alienation...
Baraka also agrees that the black experience is singular but he at least allows the white artists a stab, even if a little off-base, at playing and even writing jazz music...