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...biennial trip to the hospital for surgery. Reason: the conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed in their chests...
...Roger L. Nichols, Given Professor of Microbiology, and Herbert Sherman and Barney Reiffen, principal associates in Medicine (Engineering), led students in a discussion of the use of high school graduates in an experimental program at the Beth Israel Hospital to administer primary medical care--care needed to decide whether or not the patient needs further attention by a trained physician...
From Duff we slowly learn that he and Beth are married, and once worked as domestic servants for a man named Sykes, who has died and left them the house in which they sit. Yet, much is unclear: was Beth's lover Sykes, Duff, or another--or was he just a fantasy? And why do the couple no longer speak to each other? All that is clear is that their lives now consist mainly of memories, of images revived from their past...
With Silence, the dissolution of naturalistic play structures is complete. In Night School we had a "plot" a conventional set and recognizable characters. In Landscape, at least we knew Duff and Beth were married, and knew a little of their past. With his Landscape set, Franco Colavecchia did what Pinter did with words, creating the impression of a country kitchen with only the barest of sets: a table, two chairs, side walls and a hanging wall fragment at the rear...
MOREOVER, THE PROGRESS of human isolation is now complete as well. In Night School, though he loses Sally, Walter remains "connected," if only to his aunts. In Landscape, at least Duff and Beth are physically in the same room. Now, in Silence, each sits in a chair in his own separate area (distinguished by three wooden "floors"), totally isolated from the others, except in flashbacks depicting past relationships...