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...orphaned girl. Grace scrounged food and vitamins for Ronnie, gave him the love he needed and dreamed of sending him one day to the U.S. But Ronnie coughed more and more, and then developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could pick it up. An orthopedic surgeon gave Grace the answer: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. Only a delicate bone graft could save him. Grace Kim made her decision...
...part of Author Barzun's common sense that he recognizes U.S. business and businessmen as civilizing factors in a democratic economy. And he is bold enough to say bluntly: "To this day, a European nobleman or shopkeeper will stoop to doing things for money which an American would starve rather than do." U.S table manners he declares to be the best in the world, baseball the greatest national game, and the U.S. political system the greatest guarantee of democracy...
...Stoop, No Stretch. It is not only the housewife who calls for all the changes; her husband, especially if he has to help clean up with the children underfoot, is often more insistent. Kitchens can be equipped or renovated for anywhere from $500 to $15,000. The lower price pays for about twelve running feet of cabinets and counter tops, a sink, but no appliances. A $15,000 kitchen would include custom-built wood cabinets, stainless steel sink and counter tops, dishwasher, disposer, freezer, refrigerator, washer, dryer, an electric oven in the wall, a fireplace, special cabinets for trays, bottles...
...obvious then (and it is still true) that though they can stoop to conquer, they will hate the whole world till they can dominate...
...judge from the attachments for the muscles of the nape of his neck, Saldanha man must have walked with a pronounced stoop. He had somewhat less room for brain than Neanderthal man, who is generally considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make and use stone tools. Crude hand axes were found in the blow-out among the bones. Since many anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking mammal," Saldanha will have to be recognized as a genuine, if uncouth...