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...ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body...
...been relegated to memory-and to the big-band buffs. These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...
...attained greatness as Dean, however, in leading the growth and transformation of Harvard Law School in the postwar years. It is important, but not vital, that the School's physical plant greatly expanded during his Deanship. Great schools can thrive for a time in inadequate buildings. It is vitally important, however, that the Griswold years saw the faculty, the library and the curriculum grow to meet the needs of the time. New areas of the law had to be studied and to be taught. Old areas of the law required fresh thinking and new approaches. American lawyers were increasingly involved...
...Deer are creatures that thrive in a disturbed environment," says Ben Glading, a California game official. "It seems that the more man upsets the natural environment, the better the deer like it." California, the nation's most populous state, also supports the nation's second biggest (behind Texas) deer herd-1,000,000. Pennsylvania has more deer today than when William Penn founded the colony. And in New York, where deer were extinct in 1915, the whitetail population...
...this doesn't mean that the two groups are mutually exclusive. In fact, hippies thrive best at a University in which the activists have a maximum of power; while activists seem to be most effective at a university which has a large hippy population. Each group helps the other--the hippies provide the life style and atmosphere while the activists bring about the changes which allow their wigged-out brethren to survive...