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...calls to penance in order to call to salvation. It is not bitter; it is not ill-tempered; it is not discourteous; it is not ironic; it is not pessimistic. It is generous. It is strong and joyful. It is full of beauty and poetry. It is full of vigor and majesty. Indeed, it raises the Cross: suffering, sacrifice, death, but to bring comfort, redemption, life...
...recital, the two myopic friends were worried about missing each other's cues, but throughout their dazzling program neither faltered at all. Ashkenazy played with great excitement and vigor, and Frager-who also charmed the audience with his perfect Russian-was every bit his match. But the thing that made the evening electrifying was the evidence of such joy in music making, the proof of such harmony in friendship...
Reflecting the new intellectual vigor on campus, the share of Webster's 650 students going on to graduate schools has jumped from a tenth to a quarter. Two years ago, Sister Jacqueline won permission for several of Webster's teaching sisters to begin doctoral work at Michigan, Syracuse, Yale, Fordham and Notre Dame universities, and this additional training will fortify Webster's pursuit of excellence. Sister Jacqueline is perhaps proudest of the liaison of scholarship she has established with prominent non-Catholic professors, secular universities, and public school systems. A compliment that she cherishes is: "You have...
...life insurance. Yet even the educated hang on to a few old tribal customs. Selling washing machines to Bantus is practically impossible because washing by hand is still considered as essential a wifely duty as childbearing. Bantus are rabid users of patent medicines, considering them a stimulant to sexual vigor; in one 1,000-home survey, Mkele found 300 different kinds of patent medicine...
...lines were dubbed in by someone else. Words were unimportant. As the young bride of a fellow twice her age, she spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone one poor drone...