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Said one moviemaker confidently: "Hollywood is at the beginning of a new age of prosperity." There were signs that he was right, portents that he was wrong. The Sick Man of Southern California has a long case history of an intermittent fever, in which booms and busts succeed each other with violent frequency. The great successes of the teens and '20s brought on the "fall-of-Babylon" parties that led to the Morals Crisis of the mid-'20s. In the late '20s the introduction of sound set Hollywood on its ears, but it was followed...
...nearest thing in America is an Inauguration of a president, but even that event is too partisan and frequent to evoke the same fever. Rather the coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...
...letters were black-edged; many writers held tongue firmly in cheek. Someone sent in a printed circular which broadly hinted that Harvard students needed more meat to prevent rheumatic fever...
...Viva! Viva!" It has been about 15 years since De Gasperi dug his climbing boots and pickax into an Alp, but he still suffers the mountaineer's fever-the looking for other peaks to climb while still chivvying and picking his way up the peak beneath his feet. "He always sees the next summit," explained a friend. Last week in Genoa, where bombed-out ruins of the past are still visible behind the shiny new fagades of the present, he stood before a mass of dockworkers and shipworkers...
What the visible enemies left of a man, the invisible ones were ready to attack. Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth...