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...brow drops blood, His side is torn, His hands have nail prints, His feet are bruised, His heart is bleeding, and He throws his emaciated body across the gaping chasm between justice and mercy, and cries...
...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...
...proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat, glistening on his brow...
Until last Friday night Penn looked like just another doormat for the powerful Varsity swimmers. Then the Quakers rose up to topple the Green by the same score the Crimson had previously registered, thereby adding another row of wrinkles to the plentifully-furrowed brow of Coach Hal Ulan...