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...height of his career tragedy struck. Today most historians diagnose his disease as leprosy. As his toes and fingers began to wither, he is said to have struck several of them off in paroxysms of pain and rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick...
...Presidential Assistant Anderson should enjoy his new job. In I and Claudie one hobo says, "There is hardly anything that is not in my line . . . It is only when [a man] does the same thing over and over that his talents begin to wither and his spirits to fester up." The NSC's span of global problems is not likely to fester a man's spirits...
...output of the '30s seems below par today, but For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was one of his best, and in The Old Man and the Sea he is better than he ever was, more mature and less mannered. Unlike most American writers, who seemed inexplicably to wither after their triumphs (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Her-esheimer, Thomas Wolfe), Ernest Hemingway has continued to grow...
...accounting for two-thirds of export income. "Brazil walks on one leg," said a Vargas Finance Minister, "and the leg is coffee." Dependence on a single product makes Brazil vulnerable to exchange crises every time the price slides. Not only is the one leg wobbly: it might some day wither altogether and go the way of dyewood, sugar, gold and rubber. Competition from the other coffee countries and from cheap-labor plantations in Africa is increasing. World overproduction is a constant threat. And there is always the nightmarish possibility that some diabolically clever chemist may wreck the market altogether...
...king business made it desirable to give the constituents the feeling that the king obeyed a higher law of justice. Kingship, indeed, is meaningless without reference to a higher law. And this is the irony of power: that it will either create checks upon itself or it will wither...