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...Vein to vein changing, running into gold...
Some are best told in a jungular vein and in a series that gradually weakens the victim: Q. Why are elephants gray? A. So you can tell them from blueberries...
...writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept, she removed the bronze nail which stoppered the single vein running from his neck to his ankles. Out rushed the divine ichor, a colorless liquid serving him for blood, and he died...
...attached to attending a school whose enrollment is completely or exclusively Negro, and this sense of sting and resulting feeling of inferiority has an undesirable effect on attitudes related to successful training." Raubinger has issued orders to end de facto segregation in three New Jersey communities. In the same vein, a former foe of "social engineering via bussing," Dr. John Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College, warns that schools must "take positive action to bring Negro children into the mainstream of American cultural activity." And in California, the state supreme court in June came close to outlawing...
...presentations are in this vein. All the Things You Are, Shadrach, Ride the Chariot, and Blue Moon demonstrate that they can sing straight songs, and sing them quite well. The arrangements of these old standards are refreshing and interesting, and the group is capable of sometimes difficult harmonies. Unlike many amateur college groups, the Dunces maintain consistently accurate intonation, and their voices blend into sweet, as well as powerful sounds...