Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rated writing workshop, had joined with Associate Professor of Music Bezanson before on-among other works-a set of tenor songs based on the poet's collection, The Word of Love. Although they would like to try another opera, they would not want to start next time without a commission. Explains Bezanson: "It takes about two years out of your life, and you're just lucky if it clicks...
...Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...
...united to form a chain throughout the South and the Midwest, called Senior Citizens Hotels Inc. They are converting several floors of each hotel for retirement living. There is a recreation room and kitchen, ramps instead of stairways where possible. Rents range from $35 a month for a room without meals to $125 for a bath and three meals, supervised by a dietitian to make certain that meals are wholesome for oldsters. Says Senior Citizens' originator, Charles Little: "An attractive retirement hotel sells the children whose consciences might otherwise bother them when they move the old folks...
...blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...
...contains some of the best and some of the most shocking writing of the year. Its hollow, spineless central character leaves a trail of misery and tragedy in the wake of his weakness, a condition that, the author seems to imply, infects a great many average U.S. young men without the stamina to face the facts of life...