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...these times of great national and international flux and stress, two or more persons cannot meet for 30 seconds on bus or corner without a heated debate ensuing on "the Third Term" or "the Battle of the Bulge...
...slows down. Down goes the blood pressure. The Young Doctor, quietly frantic, administers stimulants to keep life alive until he can get a transfusion from the blood bank. In the picture's most harrowing scene, the blood drop by drop saves the woman's life as the flux of life itself is heard in the fading heart beat of Gruenberg's superb score...
Seen through blurred eyes, his reflected image was in a constant flux of alternate expansion and contraction. Do what he would, one lick of hair insisted on standing straight up in the air, and the knot in his tie would never assume the proper Mount Auburn Street air. Completely overwhelmed by this terrifying mechanical monster, he was incapable of simulating any form of non-chalance--the all-essential part of the successful Harvard...
...Lawrence's materials came not only from his constantly anguished experience but from a whole raft of undigested philosophy, anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...
During the first period, Ayres from his backing-up post was able to stem much of Penn flux through the center of the Crimson front line. When Ayres was removed, the Quaker master-minds were able to work their strategy more effectively. The Crimson backs were pulled in through fear of long runs, and passes were tossed neatly over their heads...