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...work by themselves is $11,000 a year. In partnerships of two or three lawyers, the median rises to $15,000. With four or five in the firm, the figure is $17,000. In firms where the roster of partners runs to twelve or more lawyers, median income reaches upward to a level that many a successful doctor might find impressive-$28,500 a year...
...school day; elementary schools are team-teaching 7,500 pupils; 10,000 slow readers are launched on programmed-learning books. Starting next month, reading will be tackled at after-school study centers, and a new "sequential" system is aimed at forcing pupils to master specific reading steps before drifting upward. Gross has submitted a record one-year building budget of $223.8 million that calls for 37 new schools by 1965. And by 1970, he hopes to overhaul the entire school plant to the tune of $1.17 billion...
...sensual imagery which characterizes his other works. The first section conveys the energy of Spain through small details (leaves "glistened on the damp earth like freshly minted gold florins") and longer passages ("the light limped from rock to rock on its way like a wounded bird on its way upward. For a moment, it rested on the peak of the opposite mountain, seemed to pirouette upward, then disappeared. The mute murmur of evening, like the tigress's melody, enveloped the monastery"). Naturally, Kazantzakis chooses more brutal images in the second section, as when Madrid's "divine, sun-washed body...
...Often Kazantzakis tantalizingly suggests an idea--for instance, he defines God as "Necessity and Coincidence"--without further developing it. Further, some of his philosophy seems almost meaningless. For example, when describing the "Breath," the vital energy of life, he suggests that "Whatever was once a movement or an impulse upward in the forward foregoing generation--whatever was once Spirit--becomes, in the subsequent generation, motionless, stifled, heavy and in time reacts just like substance...
...such major surgery Dr. Buchwald has chosen only patients who already had severe heart-artery disease and extremely high levels of blood cholesterol. On the operating table, he locates the ileocecal valve, where the small bowel joins the large, takes a tape measure and starts measuring upward. He measures off 6 ft., or about one-third of the bowel's average total length of 15 to 20 ft. At this point, he sews the bowel tube shut, then makes a cut just above it. He takes the free end of the upper small bowel, pulls it down...