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...need for federal aid in new school construction is critical. The amendment's provisions, moreover, would affect those sections of the country which need such aid the most: the deep South, where many school districts face the prospect of making do with plants that are little short of decrepit...
...Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong, healthy and decisive, while the democracies are decrepit, dilatory. corrupt and weak. In one sense, the totalitarians are young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same as it was in the Middle Ages. Starvation, slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young...
...year later, young Lewis was in the hands of the ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his lips after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private...
...daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical cronies cadge a few rubles from him, while his decrepit old manservant grumps and bemoans the good old days. For a good 100 pages, Author Goncharov drains every drop of social comedy from the venal parade around Oblomov's bed, and from Oblomov himself, frittering away the morning and afternoon with artful dodges before finally getting...
...Nebraska's Keith Neville (70), South Carolina's Edgar Brown (66), Kansas' George McGill (75) and, of course, D'Ewart's own opponent, Senator Jim Murray. Murray, stung by the oblique reference to his age, promptly boiled over. Said he: "I'm so decrepit I would welcome D'Ewart to come on this platform, and we'd see who is the old man. I'm willing to give $2.000 to any charity you have if he wants to put on the gloves with me." Replied D'Ewart: "I would...