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...without further developing it. Further, some of his philosophy seems almost meaningless. For example, when describing the "Breath," the vital energy of life, he suggests that "Whatever was once a movement or an impulse upward in the forward foregoing generation--whatever was once Spirit--becomes, in the subsequent generation, motionless, stifled, heavy and in time reacts just like substance...
...week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck. At week's end his condition was still listed as "critical," and the probability of permanent paralysis was "very high...
...otherworldly air, that drama is utterly human. Silent, motionless, unconscious, and all but invisible under her surgical drapes, the leading actor is the human patient...
...Crouched motionless on a mossy stone, a frog seems to be thinking about nothing, and in a sense this is true: the frog's brain is too small and primitive for real thought. But its bright, bulging eyes have a keen, built-in intelligence of their own. They select among stimuli and report to the feeble brain only those visual items that are important to a frog's wellbeing. When a cloud drifts slowly over the sun, a frog's eyes do not bother the brain with the meaningless event. But when a bird swoops down, suddenly...
Throughout the city, a quiet mania was perceptible. People were smiling. Even people with sophomore essays, theses, and Sanskrit 103 exams impending. People lay motionless on the banks of the Charles, feigning study. People lay motionless in the Yard, feigning study. At Radcliffe, most of the girls were studying, of course, but usually reliable sources told the CRIMSON that several 'Cliffies were seen sitting under trees in the quad, wearing shorts, and feigning study. Elsewhere, people were going for long walks, eating ice cream cones (with jimmies), and playing baseball...