Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Creatures of Decay. Faulkner's view of the South has no trace of magnolia-and-old-plantation romanticism; it is tough and realistic, even if sometimes debatable. From novel to novel, weaving backward and forward in patterns of time as intricate as his twining sentences, Faulkner has developed his picture of a society devastated by war-a society that was both honorable and doomed by an inherent guilt. In his view the South was right in insisting on its sovereignty but cursed by the shame of slavery. It had to fight and was doomed to lose...
Lanny Budd, like Vincent Sheean and John Gunther, meets all the great people of the world; he races about the continent of Europe on secret missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris...
...notable list of firsts. Among them: discovery (1914) of the cause, cure and prevention of pellagra; identification (1925) of brucellosis (undulant fever); first use (1942) of continuous caudal anesthesia in childbirth; proof (1943) of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis; demonstration (1941) that fluorides reduce tooth decay; isolation (1947) of one of the agents causing the common cold...
After 56 years the Italian Socialist Party had returned to its birthplace, Genoa's 16th Century Palazzo Ducale. Its drafty corridors bore the scent of political decay. Had Italian Socialism, corrupted by its alliance with the Communists, come home to die? Its leaders said not-but their expostulations carried little conviction, even to one another. Last week, the evidence of death was strong enough to warrant interment...
...look at Eugene Berman, a bald, plump, cheerful little man, you would never guess that his paintings are meticulously composed glimpses of ruin, misery and decay. A Thomas Traddles among painters, he pictures philosophers asleep under Paris bridges and ragged princes mooning among the ruins of their family palaces; his work fairly groans with heartache. But Berman himself, whose painted gloom has earned him a solid reputation throughout Europe, has claimed to be "divinely happy" ("It's just that I enjoy melancholy things...