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...Kindly Light, with love enfold...
...brain of 60 or 70 years "is characterized by an amazing reduction in mass." It shrinks from its skull casing like a dry sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many...
...Cambridge Police are on the job. They are stoutly determined that the evil element, so densely concentrated in Harvard, will not be allowed to enfold within its lecherous toils the virtuous maidens of Cambridge. Harvard men are not to be trusted one inch and the slightest suspicion is to be acted upon with vigour. Recently they showed not only the ability, but the inclination to practice their prerogatives in curbing the vice that is flourishing...
...late summer dusk stooped to enfold the arid campus of New York university, Manhattan, one evening last week, a band struck up. The slow movement of the brasses and drums and the grandiose melancholy of the horns contributed a poetic languor to the cool beginning of the evening. But no languor possessed the many listeners. They whispered to each other, took excited notes, whistled snatches of tune. They were playing a game...
...Heaven," as we know, "lies about us in our infancy". But the very "gates of Heaven" themselves, it now appears, enfold those who, by superior dullness and strange conceits, have attained the blissful state of a second childhood. Nav, more! This "Janus Coeli", these futuristic portals with their synthetic inginitudes will receive not merely the humble inebriate but his wives and child--if he wish--as well. The millenium of Shadwellism is upon us. Waes Hael! Gadzooks...