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...They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...
...parts. Hence they intend to study one organ at a time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever in hearts, Bright's Disease in kidneys. When that work is done they will have reached the goal which Hippocrates set for physicians 2,300 years ago. Life...
...Asiatic barbarism, Russia drew her ideas of Western progress and enlightenment from Europe, her form of government from the East. The dilemma of Peter the Great, who tried to evoke initiative by force, who "desired that the slave, remaining a slave, should act consciously and freely," remained to haunt the later Tsars, who dared not concede an inch of freedom lest their subjects demand a mile...
Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...
...interest to Harvard students is one of Robinson's most beautiful short odes, entitled "Harvard 5" telling of the spirits which haunt that famous lecture room. Robinson was a student at Harvard during the years...