Word: wasteland
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...Sales, a slap-sticking echo of vaudeville who appears on TV's children's hour. The first time that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage young people to forget neatness, ignore barbers, bypass cleanliness and turn into a nation of slobs...
...remodelers were busy restoring to their original elegance dozens of 18th century row houses that had most recently been seedy boardinghouses. To the southwest, work began on a new shopping center at Eastwick, a 2,508-acre city-within-a-city that is rising in what was recently a wasteland of marshes, junkyards, trailer camps and crumbling shacks...
...bomb test blast echoed through all the world's capitals. And it roused once again the specter of a dead and devastated world. Scientists and laymen alike have long feared that the aftermath of a nuclear attack would be a desolation of blasted, baked and radioactive wasteland. What life survived the initial holocaust, it was agreed, would surely succumb to the longer-lasting hazards of atomic radiation. So far, the best proving grounds for such theories are Bikini and Eniwetok, the two Pacific atolls that were clobbered by some 60 atomic explosions, from the low-yield nuclear blasts that...
...Washington radiologists, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, have made an extensive, five-week survey. They report findings that seem to suggest that if ever men are foolish enough to pull the nuclear trigger-and fortunate enough to limit the area of conflict-the earth may not become a wasteland after...
...characters, plot, subplots and messages are all lightweights. In a sort of split-level Manhattan setting, the author contrives to make a number of cherished American goals-including sex, booze, wealth, social position, world travel and Broadway fame-sound dull and unprofitable. Glibly cynical, he views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk-ups: should an Artist give up his Integrity for Commercial Success? Positively not, Mr. Kauffmann...