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Nestled between the laboratories of MIT and the small factories that are the lifeblood of the East Cambridge working-class neighborhoods, it is also caught between two strange bed-fellows who coexist in an uneasy, often antagonistic truce...
...paradoxical that when an understanding of immunology is opening new avenues of attack against cancer, our Government is draining the lifeblood of biomedical research by drastically decreasing its support. What sense does it make for the Administration to pay lip service to a "crusade against cancer" while cutting off money for training the Robert Goods of the future...
Miller's answer is as strong as it is stark; the currency of conscience has only one backing-a man's lifeblood. Miller astutely recognizes that the purpose of tyranny is not to scourge the guilty but to crush the free. A tyranny must wipe out its most dangerous enemy-one man who will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow...
...danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists, he says, it has an advantage over the other arts because it encourages "verbalization, the lifeblood of psychotherapy...
...Manhattan. The growing exodus, however, hits troubled New York City where it hurts the most: in prestige and the pocketbook. Already skirting municipal bankruptcy, despite the highest per capita tax load in the U.S., the city cannot afford a commercial hemorrhage. Trade and finance are the city's lifeblood, the main creators of new jobs and a major source of taxes, nourishing its coffers as well as its culture. Unless the outward migration of offices is reversed, even federal revenue sharing seems unlikely to keep New York from losing its economic vitality along with its solvency...