Word: pneumonia
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...weatherbeaten two-room frame house. His gas has been cut off since sum mer. When he absolutely must return home, he says, "I put newspapers in the cracks and sleep with my clothes on and put on all the blankets and quilts I can find. If you get pneumonia, that's it." In Wisconsin's Green County, two 65-year-old widows have moved into one house to save on fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding...
DIED. Major General Ernest N. Harmon, 85, one of World War IIs most decorated commanders; of pneumonia; in White River Junction, Vt. A West Point graduate, Harmon, better known to his troops as "Old Gravel Voice," commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division during the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942; the division later halted the Germans' westward plunge in the Battle of the Bulge...
...Scidmore, Eichner and Logan, while not a total surprise, certainly exceeded expectations. For the first time in his collegiate career, Eichner has reasonable pre-season preparation to fall back on in addition to his tremendous natural ability. Meanwhile, junior Scidmore sports good health not seen since his bout with pneumonia two years...
DIED. André Meyer, 81, Paris-born investment banker who dominated Wall Street's aggressive Lazard Frères & Co. for 34 years; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A star at Lazard's Paris affiliate before fleeing France in 1940, Meyer became senior partner at the firm's Manhattan headquarters in 1944 and turned a cautious house into a corporate merger machine instrumental in the making of such giants as RCA and ITT. A compulsive worker, he amassed a fortune estimated at half a billion dollars, became an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and gave millions...
Players in the game can pile up examples but still have difficulty arriving at any generality. Decadence, in one working definition, is pathology with social implications: it differs from individual sickness as pneumonia differs from plague. A decadent act must, it seems, possess meaning that transcends itself and spreads like an infection to others, or at least suggests a general condition of the society. Decadence (from the Latin decadere, "to fall down or away," hence decay) surely has something to do with death, with a communal taedium vitae; decadence is a collection of symptoms that might suggest a society exhausted...