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...first requirement of U.S. policy is to keep Europe from going Communist. That is what the "Truman Doctrine" and the "Marshall approach" are all about. One of the advantages the Communists have over the democrats is that the Reds thrive when want, frustration and disorder prevail, as they do now in Europe. One of the many advantages the democrats have over the Reds is that Europeans, like other people, would rather not be hungry, frustrated and disordered. The U.S. has the means to help Europe acquire food, hope and stability...
...arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves, and to be in charge of the discipline of their own energies and ardors. The conditions for democracy and for art are one and the same. What we call liberty in politics results in freedom in the arts...
...individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs...
...altitude does not bother the local Indians, who have long since adapted themselves to Andean life. They thrive and raise families in altitudes up to 17,000 feet, which is more than a mile above the altitude at which most U.S. Army airmen are required to use oxygen. Peruvian pilots of Indian blood fly their airplanes as high as 24,000 feet without extra oxygen...
...Russia's bearish, boorish behavior: "It is difficult to forgive from a recent ally such attacks as the following, broadcast to Norway by Moscow radio on June 8, 1946: 'This little country [England] went to war because it and its fascist reactionary leaders love war and thrive on war. The attack on Hitlerite Germany was purely incidental...