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...between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
...sacrificed, rent control can hurt housing quality in subtler ways. Banks are normally unwilling to lend to prospective builders in rent controlled communities. In Cambridge, there is no incentive under rent control to make capital improvements such as kitchen modernization or any major renovation. Burned buildings are left to rot; renovation simply isn't worthwhile under rent control. Even if George Sternlieb's picture of housing deterioration is somewhat exaggerated. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that rent control's discouragement of both new construction and renovation must lead to a progressive outmoding of the housing stock...
...fall like dry leaves and rot on my topsoil...
...demand, I cure you, than, as our Lord cursed the fig treat may you depart from this place forever sterile may your generation either at the roots, and a better be fed by its rot...
...book is a chronicle of botched hopes and personal failures. The government sinks in corruption and ineptitude. Idealistic university students stumble over their ignorance and lack of discipline. A servant girl's brief moment of romance leads to jungle rot and death in childbirth. Cynical political hacks are failed Communists and newspapermen are often failed poets who have difficulty with the fundamentals of news writing. "You have to start with the dead people, young man," advises one helpful editor. The novel's title does not refer to the church, which the author oddly does not deal with...