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...Echo. Poet T. S. Eliot read them too. He translated Anabase, rated the poem with the best of James Joyce. Others have called Poet Perse-Leger the father of modern poetry. "Perse," said Eda Lou Walton, "caught the modern nostalgia for new fields of exploration, the sense of decay in the old, the use of a mythical pageantry to suggest world movements and retardations. He wrote the 'Anabasis' and modern poem after modern poem has echoed his theme...
...back from Kirkland Avenue and shielded by shrubbery, from prying eyes, Peabody House today is tottering between salvation and decay. The building is now used daily by the Graduate School of Education and the ASTP, but spiders still spin undisturbed in the attic...
...these soft, comfortable, protective principles, inducing decay, could not have been consistent with our great American pioneering tradition. Strength comes from practice and struggle, not from comfort and protection. Would a monopoly have been as bold in the development of equipment. . . ? What incentive would there have been for it to get up early and work late to develop its business? In the scales of American business, reasonable competition is good, it has made us strong and we want to keep it. We must continue to depend upon the strong yeast of competition to keep us growing...
Herbert Morrison, who has a way with words, seemed to agree with Bevan, seemed prepared to give Laborites the leadership they have so long lacked. Said he : "For us it is leadership or decay. . . . [Membership] figures show the absolute necessity for our Party, if it wishes to get its policies carried out, to gain the support of great numbers outside its own ranks. . . . This will not be done by reiterating the platitudes of the Party meeting hall. ... It is not enough to get up and thump the table and talk about the socialization of all the means of production, distribution...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...