Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these soft, comfortable, protective principles, inducing decay, could not have been consistent with our great American pioneering tradition. Strength comes from practice and struggle, not from comfort and protection. Would a monopoly have been as bold in the development of equipment. . . ? What incentive would there have been for it to get up early and work late to develop its business? In the scales of American business, reasonable competition is good, it has made us strong and we want to keep it. We must continue to depend upon the strong yeast of competition to keep us growing...
Herbert Morrison, who has a way with words, seemed to agree with Bevan, seemed prepared to give Laborites the leadership they have so long lacked. Said he : "For us it is leadership or decay. . . . [Membership] figures show the absolute necessity for our Party, if it wishes to get its policies carried out, to gain the support of great numbers outside its own ranks. . . . This will not be done by reiterating the platitudes of the Party meeting hall. ... It is not enough to get up and thump the table and talk about the socialization of all the means of production, distribution...
Surrealists, Class-Strugglers. Kootz whales away at surrealism in general as "an aspect of frustration" and evidence of "the decay of France." He admires the earlier work of Giorgio di Chirico. But of Salvador Dali he says: ". . . Each new showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...Charles Darwin's five; in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Onetime member of Parliament (1892-95), president of the Royal Geographical Society (1908-11), the Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year, is small indeed...