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...abound who have grown so immersed in their work that they become narrow human beings--unable to appreciate much of what goes on around them, incapable of enjoying their leisure hours, and bereft of resources for the period late in life when they no longer have their careers to sustain them. The point of encouraging serious intellectual pursuits, however, is not simply to enrich the hours away from work, important as that may be. Without a breadth of interests, one may lack the learning and imagination to make the wise and creative judgments that no amount of professional competence...
After a brief ceremony, the coffin was carried to a hearse for the clanging procession to the cemetery. At the tomb, food was placed on the coffin, in accordance with Buddhist ritual, to sustain the soul on its otherworld journey. During the graveside ceremony, the audible and visible anguish of the family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor...
...orange star somewhat like the sun with about seven-tenths of its mass and 30% of its luminosity. Thus, if there were any planets in orbit around Epsilon Eridani, at least one might be at the right distance from the parent star to receive enough light and heat to sustain the evolution of life. In fact, the similarities between Epsilon Eridani and the sun prompted radio astronomers in 1960 to aim their big antennas at the star in a brief-and unsuccessful -effort to detect radio emissions that might be emanating from a civilization on a planet in orbit around...
...normal daily publication schedule was resumed, then abandoned on October 4 with the announcement that publication would be suspended until the end of the War. On October 24, however, with the aid of graduate editors the paper began appearing as a weekly. Even this arrangement was hard to sustain the second Acting President of the Fall had taken office, and almost all of the editors on the masthead were listed as "in Service." Only the Armistice kept operations moving, because the College had announced that a special College year would begin in January for returning veterans. The Crimson limped through...
...Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural and adopted sons. Francis Ford Coppola has directed with a line enough eye to make all the connections between them apparent: Gordon Willis's septa-tinged photography and Nino Rota's robust music help sustain the varying moods of his emotional Italians...