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Throughout Atkinson's long, arduous career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a majority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association...
These frog-based problems ought to cause anxiety only in "traditionalist minds . . . All increase in human capabilities complicates the moral life . . . Let us beware, however, of ever reproaching science for the difficulties it has created for us. It is not recent news that living is more arduous for an adult than for a child." Dr. Rostand is no child, and his frogs are no tadpoles...
...exploiting Tom's connections with Truman and Acheson, and questioning (unjustly) Tom's enthusiasm for a bill to give tidelands oil back to Texas. "My friends in Texas say I could be re-elected," said Tom, "but it would require a bitter-no, not bitter-an arduous campaign ... It might kill...
Donald Powell Wilson spent three years as the San Quentin resident psychologist; the place was a clinician's paradise. In this period Powell found numerous father complexes and gave the "California Test of Mental Maturity" to every convict who wanted a short vacation from arduous tasks. The tangible evidence of Wilson's tenure are a large graph of San Quentin's I.Q.s and, much more valuable and interesting, the prose and film account of his personal experiences within the prison walls...
...then, without warning, it is upon them--hour after hour, wave after wave, until the blood pounds in their ears and they totter on limbs long unaccustomed to such arduous travail...