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...tiny deathbed in Eisleben with our outsize sense of the man's historical stature and accomplishments. And only in Germany would there be a chart in the room where Luther died of a heart attack that enumerates his physical complaints and describes a cure he took for one ailment that included the crucial ingredient of horse manure...
...bland suggestion concerning Chernenko's whereabouts was eerily similar to the explanations given out about Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months. Just a few weeks before his death, Andropov was said to be recuperating from a slight ailment. A similar denial was issued shortly before Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov died from a heart attack...
...Last week they also began to admit the possibility that Chernenko, like Andropov, might reappear only at his funeral in Red Square. The unofficial grapevine is increasingly specific about the nature of Chernenko's illness. According to both Soviet and East European officials, he is suffering from a heart ailment resulting from emphysema, a pulmonary condition that has possibly been aggravated by pneumonia...
...problem, as always, is how to evaluate the ephemeral evidence. Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
Both these ailments are related to a third--the absence of time--which, finally, may be the modern ailment that most needs curing. The Industrial Revolution may eventually give back much more than it took away, but it has never restored time. As anguished as were Arnold's thoughts in Dover, at least he had the time to deal with them; the world that had neither "certitude nor peace" was evidently not spinning so rapidly in the wrong direction that it allowed no moment for a corrective or contemplative voice. Arnold took hold of that moment; he felt that...