Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones' Love and the Pilgrim, sold in 1898 for .?5,775 ($28,000), dropped to ?21 ($85) within less than 50 years. If artists who in their day were considered outstanding, whose work was underwritten by the capital and by the social opinions of a powerful empire, could vanish into the oubliette, there is no reason to suppose that the same thing may not happen to their modern equivalents-the Rothkos and Newmans, the Warhols and Johnses, and even (blasphemous thought!) some of the Picassos. What goes up is quite able to come down. It only needs a little...
...wait and see" attitude are appearing among some buyers who think that mortgage rates may soon ease back. Michigan Entrepreneur Warren Avis, founder of the Avis Rent A Car system, was quickly filling a 120-unit condo conversion in Detroit last month, but saw many of his customers vanish as mortgages rocketed. Says he: "All of a sudden we got slugged in the guts. The last four weeks have broken the back of buying...
...that the U.S., with the rest of the West, has fallen into dangerous decline. The case might be argued thus: the nation's pattern is moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...
Meeting in an office of Dallas Senator Oscar Mauzy, the dozen agreed simply to vanish from the 31 -seat state senate, thus blocking any senate action by preventing the necessary quorum of 21. The next morning ten of the Bees (two others simply left the state) began hiding out in a 12-ft. by 20-ft. room in a garage apartment that had only two beds, a shower, a toilet and a sink-and a peephole in the door. Most of the Bees figured that they would be there only a short time until Hobby agreed to drop the bill...
...JUDGMENT. When the sun is folded up; when the stars fall, losing their lustre; when the mountains vanish; when the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended; when the wild beasts are herded together; when the oceans boil over with a swell;... when the World on High is unveiled; when the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat; and when the Garden is brought near;-(Then) shall each soul know what it has put forward...