Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...does the fact that Washington is a company town mean that the company itself is lifeless. When a big political event breaks in Washington, there is nothing like it. Those same reporters who sometimes make too much of too little also know a real story when they see one. They whoop it up like prospectors, and the city shines with news. The point is that Washington is very much whatever the rest of the country wants it to be, and if it has turned out to be not quite perfect, it is largely because some old ideas soured, or outlived...
...much that was wrong with the world: the growing despoliation of the environment, the chemical devastation of the Vietnamese countryside, the spread of nuclear weaponry. Even the first flush of excitement about landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more attention to earthly problems. NASA is still suffering budgetary blues from this outcry. Indeed, only last week the space agency's beleaguered boss, Robert Frosch, announced he was quitting, reportedly because of lack of financial support...
...past alters under the gaze of new generations. Children raised on the stultifying history textbooks of the past-especially those of the '40s and '50s-are apt to think of the past as a mass of impermeable and indigestible facts: a huge and useless object, as lifeless and impassive as a moonscape. But the past actually teems with an almost irrepressible life, especially in a nation as widely literate and elaborately documented as the U.S. The past constantly achieves renewals and transmogrifications as political symbol and polemical weapon. The present and the past are always in an almost...
...integrity, the Lindberghs first hold to their beliefs, then gradually join the main currents of American thought. A brilliant procession of notables streams through the pages. Here are the internationalists and the noninterventionists: Founding Father Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, certain that England is finished; William Randolph Hearst, "that gray and lifeless mask"; W.H. Auden, "loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot to make...
Closer to the mountain, the eruption blasted twelve miles of the once pristine north fork of the Toutle River into a lifeless moonscape. Herds of black-tailed deer, bobcats and cougars used to swarm through the valley's hemlock and Douglas fir; elk still wandered in hopeless confusion through the ashen desolation. The river and its source, Spirit Lake, once teemed with steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. All were destroyed by the eruption. TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman was one of the first journalists to see the area by helicopter after the blast. His report...