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...They persist in "seeking out the tender shoots of mental illness and nurturing them into full bloom" and translating "moral values into pathological terms...
...bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story's end, the journalist has recovered his soul, his hope, his manhood...
...Hengyang. The Jap had been delayed and suffered costly losses. The Chinese and their flying American allies fought on to block a juncture between the enemy advancing from the north and the enemy stalled in the south 40 miles above Canton. The Chinese were convinced that the Japs would persist in their campaign to bring the entire railroad under their control, and thus cut China in two. They were equally convinced that the outside world did not appreciate the seriousness of the threat...
...with articles about his prodigious son, wrote a book (Philistine and Genius) urging other parents to adopt his own methods of intellectual forced feeding. "To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child," he declared. "We can at that early period awaken a love of knowledge which will persist through life...
Whereupon Maynard Krueger promptly nominated and the 229 delegates unanimously named Norman Thomas to head their ticket for the fifth consecutive time. Candidate Thomas, a real draftee, immediately got off an acceptance speech over the Blue Network: "If we persist along the road on which the Roosevelt Administration has planted its feet, we shall be hurled into a third world war incomparably more dangerous for us than that which we now endure...