Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still have difficulty arriving at any generality. Decadence, in one working definition, is pathology with social implications: it differs from individual sickness as pneumonia differs from plague. A decadent act must, it seems, possess meaning that transcends itself and spreads like an infection to others, or at least suggests a general condition of the society. Decadence (from the Latin decadere, "to fall down or away," hence decay) surely has something to do with death, with a communal taedium vitae; decadence is a collection of symptoms that might suggest a society exhausted and collapsing like a star as it degenerates toward...
...children on junk food and then permits them to be enlisted in pornographic films. The nation subdivides into a dozen drug cultures - the alcohol culture, the cocaine culture, the heroin culture, the Valium culture, the amphetamine culture, and combinations thereof. Legal abortions and the pervasive custom of contraception suggest a society so chary of its future that it has lost its will to perpetuate itself. Says British Author Malcolm Muggeridge: "What will make historians laugh at us is how we express our decadence in terms of freedom and humanism. Western society suffers from a largely unconscious collective death wish." Alexander...
After reading Frank Trippett's anti-air conditioning Essay [Aug. 13], I suggest that he be employed as a correspondent permanently assigned to the equator...
...that dense, no-fooling Washington weekly has 4,000 subscribers, each willing to pay $345 annually. "We're a sophisticated trade magazine for those involved in policymaking," says Publisher John Fox Sullivan, and the Journal is every bit as thorough-and sometimes as dull-as this mandate would suggest. Washington's shakers and movers, along with many of the shaken and the moved, read it scrupulously. The White House has 75 subscriptions, Congress more than 400, and the press corps countless more. Confesses Stuart Eizenstat, the President's domestic affairs adviser: "I read it to find...
...thing: Fix the attention upon the given object or situation so that the various elements, all familiar, will regroup themselves. Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his stories regularly do the reverse. They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within. Pages from Cold Point, Bowles' best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native waters. Violence must be forestalled. The father is too civilized to confront the boy with...