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...accident. It springs from the bewilderment of men who are living through the apparently irrational collapse of a great civilization, "the happiest," says Chamberlin, "and certainly the most creative in the history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb engines...
...According to A.D.A.'s past president, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt of Manhattan, the incidence of tooth decay today is as bad as it was 100 years ago, even though dental care is better. Said he: "People spend $1,600,000,000 a year on tobacco, and this is $200,000,000 more than they spend on all medical care, including surgery and dentistry...
Teeth just plain don't decay in Deaf Smith County, on the sandy plains of the Texas panhandle. (Elsewhere in the U.S. 95 out of 100 have dental caries.) This remarkable fact was reported last week to the Houston meeting of the American Dental Association by Dr. Edward Taylor, chief dentist of the Texas State Board of Health...
...chief gods of literature in the 1930s -James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein-were historians of decay. Let us cast off these gods, who have injected writers, scholars, schools and schoolboys with meanness, cynicism, defeatism, and restore the true classics to education...
...Irish are following the Yankees into racial indistinctness. Symptoms: 1) the decay of their birth rate; 2) their "almost complete urbanization...