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...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a Nantucket spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...
...ruminative pipe smoker between puffs. No social pigeon can escape Snow's passion for pigeonholing. However, no one can quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school. At rare moments, The Affair is even a touch exalted, as when a quavering nonagenarian don suddenly trumpets the underlying theme of the book: "Go now and do justice. If you can temper justice with mercy, do so. But go and do justice...
...reason of their strength-and '-' modern medicine-more and more Americans are living beyond the Biblical threescore years and ten, and beyond fourscore. What makes for a long life? What makes a long life livable? And useful? In this week's cover story on Nonagenarian Amos Alonzo Stagg, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant reports on the medical progress that has prolonged human life. To supplement the story, TIME presents a gallery of U.S. elders, photographed by LIFE'S Alfred Eisenstaedt (who is only 59). "Eisie," who has probably photographed more famous people than any other photographer, carried...
...Nonagenarian Stagg's life, though far from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...
Pleasing, well-lighted and rich in art, the new museum in its first year is drawing well over 1,000 visitors a day. Most distinguished: Florence's nonagenarian Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson, who summoned up strength to visit Capodimonte, stayed for more than half an hour before Masaccio's Crucifixion (high on "BB's" list of world masterpieces), then left, overwhelmed...