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Sets rayless-joyless-quenched in cold decay...
...first widely distributed tooth powder to include carbamide (urea) and dibasic ammonium phosphate (TIME, Feb. 14), had climbed, so its makers claimed, to fourth place in sales among all U.S. dentifrices, surpassed only by Colgate, Ipana and Pepsodent. Amm-i-Dent, a dentifrice supposed to head off tooth decay, had indisputably set the trade's teeth on edge...
Last fall, a field man reported to President Melvin that several dentists in his territory were excited over ammoniated dentifrices. Researchers at the University of Illinois and at Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital, testing the use of urea and dibasic ammonium phosphate to kill bacteria associated with tooth decay, had reported promising results...
Death and decay loomed large in Maeterlinck's works. "Everywhere," wrote a critic, "Maeterlinck discerned signs of an inevitable decadence of the human race . . . According to him, 2,000 years hence human relations will have declined to the level of life in a termite colony." The insects whose lives he studied for years seemed better off than people. "The ant is far less unhappy," wrote Maeterlinck, "than the very happiest...
Your masterful story . . . exposes our age as one of technical achievement, jets and atomic bombs, paralleled by moral and cultural decay. Like the case of Gandhi, it again proves to a material world how dangerous it is to be really good...