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...judge the University plans to slash down the ivy out of misguided budget-cutting or even lack of aesthetic appreciation for greenery. Surely administrators enjoy the sight of thick, flourishing ivy just as much as we do. Moreover, to borrow one official's famous sentiment, if the ivy does vanish, students will have to look at bare wills for only four years; deans will have to look at them for life. No, we are willing to believe that Harvard's leaders would not be taking out their clippers unless the ivy were seriously munching away at Harvard's walls...
...dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases flourish in the absence of any public sanitation or health care. Since transportation, water, food, and housing are virtually non-existent, community spirit and public order vanish in the scramble among traumatized survivors for what is left...
...vanish as soon as Barnett goes out to meet the press, says Bobby. Then he adds: But we've got it down. We know what he said...
...devoted his whole being to the Jehovah's Witnesses. The religion responded by raising him to the very top, as a member of its worldwide Governing Body. But it was a difficult period for the leadership. In 1975 the sect faced a debacle: the present world did not vanish as Witness publications had all but guaranteed. In a faith in which doubt is not tolerated, questions inevitably arose in the minds of some believers. Gradually Franz began to question other teachings, and now, in a downfall as dramatic as an excommunication within the College of Cardinals, he has been...
...ardent follower of one of the most influential gurus of the day, Mme. Blavatsky, and the cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind its "essence," a world of spirit. Elect souls, the survivors of this benevolent burnout, would communicate with one another in an immaterial manner whose proper art was abstract and ideal, composed of "thought-forms...