Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form from the work songs of slave days. The recording includes singers like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Peg Leg Howell, Ham Gravy, and Kokomo Arnold (with his wild falsetto). Not all the songs are as rural as Skip Jones's Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues...
Saints may live and die for the love of God, but the Roman Catholic Church sometimes canonizes them to reward the Christian loyalty of a country's faithful or to make some moral point. Last week the Vatican expressed its interest in the African church and its opposition to racism by announcing that in October, Pope Paul VI would proclaim as saints 22 Bantu converts from Uganda who were martyred between...
...from a suicidal gunshot wound. Each of the doomed men was kept alive for a while by artificial breathing apparatus, and any one of them might have been a suitable donor if there had been an equally suitable recipient handy. But even if they had had a dying heart patient on whom to try a transplant, Dr. Hardy and his team felt that switching off the artificial respiration to let a man die before removing his heart seemed too much like killing a patient. Say Dr. Hardy and his colleagues: "We were not able to conclude that we would...
Turn to the Chimp. Eventually, the surgeons and physicians decided that unless they were willing to take the question of life or death in their own hands and shut off the artificial breathing of a potential donor, it was "exceedingly unlikely" that such a man would die at just the right time, while a waiting heart patient was being kept alive on the heart-lung machine...
...idea, the portrayal of the conflict within Thomas and his break with the other apostles. Just when Thomas is struggling most manfully in language that is grounded in the immediate situation, he is forced to shout out abstractions like, "Destiny is an endless shame, a necessity in order to die." Both the words and the volume of their delivery alienate us from Thomas's true feelings. Thus the voice of the author only annihilates the reality of his characters...