The larger body survives to breed, and hence spawn a legacy far sturdier than any tumor mass could manage.
The idealisation of bohemian artistic and intellectual life, and the dogma of its superiority over the bourgeois commercial life, that prevailed among Keynes' Bloomsbury friends, and prevails still among artists and intellectuals, is a remarkably sturdy remnant of our feudal legacy.
Next to it were 60 sturdy archive boxes of papers, a legacy of the university's most famous scientist: Selman A. Waksman, who won a Nobel Prize in 1952 for the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic to cure tuberculosis.
"Steichen was looking for a sturdy, sexy, adoring constant companion," she wrote in "Steichen's Legacy: Photographs: 1895-1973," a survey published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2000.
His model was Andrew Carnegie, who left hundreds of sturdy libraries standing in small towns as part of his philanthropic legacy.
