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...guilt," the great Russian composer promised to mend his Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death (on the same day as Stalin's), Prokofiev's Real Man is finally being performed for Moscow audiences...
Criticizing modern writers who underestimate the importance of plot, Bentley pointed to "a decay of narrative sense" among critics and scholars...
...experts finally were forced to the conclusion that no chemical had been used to induce mummification; rather, by a "freak of chance," warm air from below the floor, flowing through cracks in the door and out a trap door at the top of the closet, had stopped the normal decay of flesh a few days after death. What was the cause of death? Looking close, Dr. Evans spotted traces of fabric embedded in grooves around the neck. It was the remnant of a length of woman's stocking. At its end was a reef knot, twisted tightly...
Since tooth decay is virtually universal, insurance companies have shied away from dental coverage, figuring that the insured would rush to the dentist as soon as the policy was in effect. Continental found that this was not so. It ran a test plan for two years for 2,450 employees and dependents of the Dentists' Supply Co. of New York at its York, Pa. plant. Continental found that the fear of the dentist's drill was the actuary's best friend. People who had made it a habit to visit the dentist continued...
Even in the days before the U.S. Civil War, Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history...