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...before long, the creature's life-blood began to ebb, and after a struggle he collapsed and was taken for dead. And then just after he was carted away, he was dramatically resurrected, and after uttering a few words of inspiration, he returned to the great celestial beyond...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Beyond the Ivory Tower is a distinction between collective and individual action. Essentially, educated individuals in the university community have the right and should be encouraged to speak out on moral issues. They should write articles, collect petitions, organize debates, and engage in the intellectual discourse that provides the life-blood of any university...

Author: By Lawrence S. Grafsten, | Title: View From the Ivy Tower | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: The PR System: Unique and Complex | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

...photography is striking and beautiful; every scene features at least one sunset, a device which conveys, albeit cheaply by more sophisticated and "decadent" western standards, the heroic mood that is the life-blood of the film's credibility. Carrying through this effect is the usual lyrical and stirring Russian music...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Heroes of Shipka | 1/24/1958 | See Source »

...will receive full Viet-Nam support only if it cuts even the last remaining strings that bind the Associated States to the French Union. Naturally, if this is done, the French will lose much of their will to continue fighting. Seven years of jungle war have already drained the life-blood of the French officer corps. The war meets with continual opposition at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War in Indo-China: I | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

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