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If the country is debased and decadent, the cure has to come from uplifting the people, not from acts of government.
celebration of the blasphemous, the criminal and the decadent."
Nostalgics take tea in the Grand Hôtel des Bains to recall the decadent 1900s, evoked there by Thomas Mann’s novella (and Luchino Visconti’s movie) Death in Venice.
(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).
But once the big band no longer played dance music, it morphed into some strange, decadent forms--Stan Kenton's small municipalities with five trombones, for instance, or intellectual ensembles like Boyd Raeburn's that magnified bebop's hustled rhythms and tricky harmonies.