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...Hardy Breed...
Baptists are a peculiar breed, and I have told Jewish rabbis, "You'll never understand Baptists. They will never persecute people of other religious faiths. They persecute one another." Personally, I think that's good for all concerned. It makes the Baptists a hardy people. Also, where there are two Baptists, you always have three opinions...
Much of the attention in contemporary opera is drawn by U.S., English or German composers: Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Werner Egk. But Italy, opera's birthplace, still produces an impressive share of the breed -some 500 new operas a year. Each year the best of the current Italian operatic product goes on display at a remarkable opera festival-the Teatro delle Novita, winding up its 17th season in the Alpine hill town of Bergamo, and known as the "gateway to La Scala...
...tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from a different breed of mice, found that the inoculated animals later were able successfully to tolerate grafts from mice of the same breed as the original donors...
...these youths cannot visualize their futures in any terms other than those dictated by their immediate neighborhood. Most young people who live in slums regard the world beyond as enemy territory. They cannot conceive of themselves in any jobs other than the ones their parents hold down. These feelings breed a stricter loyalty to the gang; the pent-up emotions they imply can only express themselves in violence...