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...build again after the Second World War. Committees professors, reports, and trials all advocated building a home burgeoning theatre activities. Little opened until the advent of Pusey in Unlike Lowell and Conant, the new president actively desired a theatre and backed fund-raising for the His encouragement bore fruit June 1957, when Loeb's gift of $1 was announced...
...down to serious work until this summer. He then called up Lyons and asked a few pointed questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke, "is an emergency parking area by the roadside of England. See how it all fits...
Easing into Bakersfield for the whistle-stop windup the next day, the Kennedy train looked like a rolling fruit stand, jammed with the offerings of a dozen Central Valley towns...
Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
Insect muscles that burn fat are fairly economical, but those that burn carbohydrates such as glycogen are lavish with fuel. Reports Wigglesworth: the carbohydrate-fueled fruit fly, Drosophila, can stay aloft for five hours at a stretch, but it beats its wings 250 times per second, and it burns up 10% of its body weight during an hour's flight-proportionately as much fuel as a 600 m.p.h. jet airliner. Drosophila's cruising speed: 2-3 m.p.h...