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Environment, however, cannot explain the Loeb's lifeless and pointless production ofPlough and the Stars. Two vital errors in conception crippled it from the start...
...Conference, when it met, was a lifeless affair. The Council submitted a long report of unflinching orthodoxy, that missed entirely the import of the Howard speech. It reflected throughout what Rainwater has called "the services strategy," as against an income strategy in dealing with problems of poverty. Thus, the section on public welfare proposed, "There should be a sharp reduction of the number of clients served by each case worker." This is a common enough American approach to social problems, but there is perhaps a special significance in this particular area: a quite disproportionate number of middle-class Negroes...
...prepare themselves mentally for one of the loneliest undertakings man has ever attempted. Explained Clinch before the climb: "Antarctica is not like the Himalayas, where you can always retreat to a native village if something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vinson Massif, the climbers' only lifeline to the outside world was an emergency radio hookup with McMurdo Sound, 1,300 miles away. Their sole comfort was that nobody needed to be afraid of the dark. In December, the sun shines 24 hours...
Cornell surprised Harvard with a 3-1 upset at Ithaca last year, but the Big Red has been lifeless in its early outings this season. In addition to losing, 4-2, to Penn last week, Cornell has been shut out by Colgate...
Uncontrollable and lifeless, it plowed into the moon's Seething Bay at 6,000 m.p.h. and was completely demolished in the crash...