Word: decayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this day of comparative prosperity and overconcentration on material wealth, lack of integrity and moral decay are brought about by the prevailing theory of many that "you are not guilty unless you get caught...
...University's relationship to the "outside world." The same conviction which made him fight to restore an atmosphere of intellectual excitement within the College, made him fight to keep the University in close contact with the "outside." Above all, he believed that complacency could lead an institution only to decay. Lowell, who liked some controversy because it kept issues alive and people alert, wanted to make Harvard not an ingrown "ivory tower," but a lively and intelligent force in contemporary America...
Occasionally one senses the Faulknerian miasma of decay, of gutted ruins of people and places; but the hints are few, and the meaning of the Faulknerian tragedy--the triumph of Snopesism and vulgarity--is non-existent...
...generally believed to appear throughout space in the form of hydrogen atoms (one proton and one electron each), but Gold and Hoyle now think it may first appear as neutrons. Since neutrons are unstable, they break up almost immediately, yielding equal numbers of protons and electrons. This neutron decay releases so much energy that the resulting "cosmological material" has the temperature...
Folly's Power. Pharaoh's court inevitably degenerates; one of his weak, precocious daughters dies, and his beautiful sister-bride Nefertiti becomes half-blind with trachoma. By the gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot succeed, of course, but it has its impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific...