Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the c...ountry, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With sighs more lunar than bronchial, Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,... She simpers into the tribal library and reads That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin ...soil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by whi...ch the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »