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...achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination with the fire of new experience...
When reminded that men have no such "faithfulness" restrictions, he shock his head and murmured, "Well, it still wouldn't be tolerated in the women...
...Hope. No longer did the Pentagon talk-in terms that chilled Western Europe-of liberating an occupied Europe, instead of defending a free one. The change was bound to create new hope among the nations which would have to meet the first shock of any Russian attack. For almost the first time since the war, the Pentagon and the State Department" seemed to be speaking with one voice...
...Within seconds, streams of blazing gasoline were running down the tracks and flaming across the pavement to the gutters. Towering sheets of fire burst up around the gushing truck; they puffed into the shattered front of the streetcar almost before the dazed and frightened passengers had recovered from the shock of the collision. Screaming, cursing, they piled toward the rear of the car, clotted there in a clawing, trampling mass...
...James Gardner and Dr. Donald E. Hale had been concerned with the surgeon's problems and the patient's danger in operations where profuse bleeding is likely (a common example: removal of brain tumors). During such an operation the patient may go into deep shock. At this point an intravenous transfusion is normally given, but it is not always successful. One reason for the occasional failures, say Drs. Gardner and Hale, is that the donor blood, received through the veins, puts an added load on an already weakened heart...