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Gabriele d'Annunzio: "I explained my absence from Ida Rubenstein's performance of my opera Phaedre by writing her the following letter: ' To my other tribulations I must now add a serious ailment in one eye. But in the painful obscurity I can still imagine your face, and my miserable imperfection is consoled by the perfection of your art. Gabriele...
America in particular has become the stronghold of specialization. The "family doctor" of a generation ago has become a syndicate, splitting up, and classifying every human ailment into as many divisions as the famous butchering industry of the "Principles of Economics." The law firms of the forties where two partners would "stump" the circuit, taking up each case as it came to them, one for the plaintiff and the other for the defendant, have given way to elaborately organized systems, drawing such fine distinctions that the vague general head of Law is lost in the vast number of sub-headings...
...their situations by politicians would loaf on the job fully as much as those who have earned those positions by examinations. Before shooting the cow because it gives no more milk it might be just as well to see if there is no less drastic remedy, and if the ailment is wholly the creature's fault anyway...
...patterned after their distinguished predecessors. Quite the contrary their altitude toward the Russian debacle is essentially a rationalistic one: they are confident of Russia's future and her ultimate regeneration. Their spokesmen have evinced no sour or rancorous feeling. Baron Stein, Minister Plenipotentiary from Russia to Argentina, describes her ailment as an intensification of prevailing European unrest for which serenity of speech and spirit is the only cure; and others speak likewise. The emigres acquiesce in the belief that the nation's salvation must come from within, and, fully realizing that Sovietism will eventually reach the end of its primrose...
...patient who hesitates, even if he does not struggle. The medicine, from our point of view, may be very beneficial. But that will not make it taste any better to the recipient; and unless the latter knows the purpose of the remedy, as well as the nature of his ailment, the cure is not likely to succeed...