Word: absented
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When she got the mail from the letter box one morning last week, a Bavarian housewife noted that one letter was addressed to her absent husband, who had recently been enrolled in West Germany's fledgling army. She also noticed that the letter was daintily scented and that the handwriting was obviously feminine. After a minuscule struggle with her conscience, she ripped open the envelope, read...
...Utterly absent from the exhibit, said Robertson, was any suggestion of "our industrial achievements," any real feeling for how Americans live, any hint of "how we tax ourselves to help the other people of the world...
...played the premiere performance of Serge Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata. These days he gives as many as 120 concerts a season in Russia and the satellites. He lives with his wife, Lyric Soprano Nina Dorlyak, in a Moscow apartment whose telephone number he is too absent-minded to remember. When he is in the mood, he may sit for 14 hours a day at the piano, but he is also likely to go for months without practicing. He dislikes recording, and as a result the scattered Richter disks available in the U.S. do him scant justice (with the notable...
...During 1957, Mr. Steele had extensive alterations and structural changes made in the cooperative apartment. As Mr. Steele was absent from New York on company affairs for some 165 days in 1957, the Company paid for him, and charged monthly to his account, costs on this work. The largest aggregate amount of debt from Mr. Steele...
...finished product of a competent craftsman, and makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...