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...last ten years of his life he was a flabby old Blimp with brandy jowls and a menacing pewter complexion. Plagued by insomnia and stunned by sedatives, he suffered intermittent hallucinations, persecuting voices, recurrent depressions. About a year ago he gave up writing almost entirely. And then last week on Easter Sunday, home from a Mass sung (to his crusty satisfaction) in Latin, he climbed the stairs to his study and died of a heart attack. His novels survive and will continue to survive as long as there are readers who can savor what Critic V. S. Pritchett calls...
...suffering the obvious and immediate discomforts of the menopause, estrogens are "relatively harmless" if given for only a few months, or a year or two at most, and may be helpful for emotional distress. But the Letter editors are still not sure that estrogens help to preserve a youthful complexion or guard against heart attacks, dowager's hump or broken bones...
...other had a lighter complexion and curly, light brown hair. He was about G'1" and 185 lbs, and thinner than his accomplice. He also wore a zipper jacket...
...ordered them to the rear was about 5'10," stocky, about 180 lbs. He had a swarthy complexion with a dark scar on his face. His hair was long, black, greasy, and combed straight back. He wore a tan, zipper poplin jacket...
Duesenberry's academic leave runs until September 1967. His appointment to the CEA, the President's third in a row from the faculty of Harvard or Yale, will leave the council's economic complexion virtually unchanged. Economists across the U.S. seem to agree that the choice was shrewd. "He fits right into the middle of CEA thinking," says Bob Roosa (for whom Duesenberry was a Treasury consultant). "He's a theorist with the quality of judgment." Considering the delicacy of the decisions he will help make, Duesenberry should find plenty of scope for that range...