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Summary Of Norman Cousins The Decline Of Neatness

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In Norman Cousins' essay, “The Decline of Neatness”, he makes some strong statements about today's overly lax culture. Cousins begins by talking about how people now are excited to dress very sloppy and quickly reject the art of dressing respectfully. Next, the author goes into the tragic disapearance of proper speech. Norman Cousins' concern with the lack of confidence in speech is displayed later also, when he explains the dangers of perverse phrases and hateful language. From there, Cousins proves that such inappropriate speech, then stems into violence in entertainment. Once the entertainment consumers have been desensitized to violence on their television screens, they also become more callused to tragedies in the real world. Cousins then
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