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...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. From an unpromising cast of New Orleans drifters and wastrels, the author has fashioned one of the most vibrant first novels of the year...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
...scene was going nowhere. Rock 'n' roll had catapulted into the bestseller charts in the 1950s on the chugging riffs of Bill Haley and His Comets (Rock Around the Clock) and the rhythmic caterwauling of Elvis Presley. But even they were bleached-out copies of the vibrant, earthy rhythm-and-blues sung in the subculture of Negro music. Until the early 1960s, rock 'n' roll went through a doldrum of derivative mewing by white singers, with only occasional breakthroughs by such Negroes as Ray Charles and Fats Domino...
...maze - done by students at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College un der the direction and guidance of Sister Mary Corita Kent, 49 - is the latest project of the nation's best-known teaching nun. Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from...
...from other halfway houses are the patients who live there. Contrary to the usual practice of taking people who have been in the mental hospital only a short time, Wellmet accepts people whom the hospital has given up as hopeless and whose families have forgotten them. Jean Carmel, the vibrant, charismatic executive director of Wellmet--herself a former director--says that most families with a mentally ill member have struggled so long with the problem that the patient's incomprehensible tantrums and truculence have become "a living thorn in their sides." Therefore when the patient is making no progress under...