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Without a murmur of dissent, RUS made a resolution yesterday to match Harvard's parietal extension to 72 hours per week. Unanimous approval is expected at next Thursday's meeting...
...heart was still beating. One hour and 25 minutes later, the heart stopped, and two surgical teams went to work. Temporarily kept warm by artificially circulated blood, then quickly sutured into place, the new heart began beating immediately without the usual electrical shock. "Silence," said Zerbini, as a murmur of astonishment swept the room, and he proceeded to sew up his patient's chest...
...prettified, philosophic where FitzGerald is sententious. His austere tone evokes a more troubled, yearning Omar whose tippling is a metaphor for religious mysticism. Yet, surprisingly for a poet of his skill and grace, Graves often lapses into ungainly syntax, primly avoids rhymes, and altogether misses the colorful, melodious murmur that so entrances the ear and emotions in FitzGerald. He may be deliberately exercising his classical restraint or making an overzealous try for accuracy. In any case, he stiffens the flow of the poem. Here is one of FitzGerald's best-known quatrains...
...objectives" of the nation's largest mortgage facility. Skeptics smiled wisely, knowing that such grand plans are often as not pulverized by the ponderous machinery of Government. Yet last week, when Lapin ordered a radical change in the way FNMA conducts its business, there was not a murmur of dissent from the frequently fractious housing industry...
...exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...