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...Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says Author Wilson: "As the years go on, the word Esel (jackass) seems almost to become synonymous with human being...
...Main virus diseases in man are the common cold, smallpox, yellow fever, measles, mumps, chicken pox, influenza, encephalitis (sleeping sickness), infantile paralysis. The animals' viruses bring foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...
...treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
Galatz, Rumania sits at the top of the Danube delta surrounded by fens teeming with mosquitoes, waterfowl and half-wild swine, its docks crowded with fat tankers and chunky grain boats. And Galatz was the scene last week of one of the most remarkable conferences since war began. It was not particularly surprising that the European Danube Commission should meet, as it has periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere...
...Germans have methodically looted the land of grain, foodstuffs, cattle, butter, swine, horses. Jewish and Polish property has been confiscated indiscriminately. Vast concentration camps have been set up and at least 300,000 young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined...