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...theories may be stated in rather flowery, idealized, overemphatic terms, but the fact remains that natural childbirth can be (as it was for me) a truly thrilling, uplifting and relatively painless experience . . . While it is true that "deepseated anxieties" (as well as the presence of certain physical conditions) render some women unable to successfully have their babies in this fashion, those who are able to witness and fully experience the birth and first moments of life of their babies are indeed fortunate...
...above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed is the nerve system of our century . . . Here are the navigators' great circle routes, the channels and the networks through which our thought flows, our news passes, our opinion gathers, and over which the end products of our energies are exchanged." Designed...
...Instead of trying to interpret our collections, we have deliberately high-hatted the man in the street and called it scholarship . . . The public are . . . frankly bored with museums and their inability to render adequate service. They have had their bellyful of prestige and pink Tennessee marble...
...showed the greatest freedom in the handling of a vocal line. He took excellent advantage of these highly dramatic texts and displayed an appropriate variety of moods while maintaining a stylistic unity with in the pair. Mr. Feder's settings showed a greater simplicity, more of a desire to render the texts than to interpret them. Yet his songs were to from colorless, I especially enjoyed the mock heroic piano recite after the Found liner. "And I would rather have my sweet... Than de high deeds in Run gray...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...