Word: dyers
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...Chinese Horowitz, pounding the keyboard with bravura intensity, whereas Li is a lucid interpreter with a poetic sensitivity, reminiscent of Artur Schnabel or Rudolf Serkin. After their respective debuts in America last year, the critics responded with the kind of ecstatic raves not seen in a long time. Richard Dyer, a critic at the Boston Globe, declared that Li "has the talent, the looks and the personal charisma to be a standard-bearer for a new generation." Following his recital at New York City's Metropolitan Museum in April, Li was besieged by his (mostly female) fans...
...Frank B. McDuffee, Jean Joslyn; Francis J. Dyer; Mary Dyer; Roger Burton, Margaret Battles; Dean Wood, Lucia Burton; W. P. Exton, Louise Corn; James Satterthwithe. Helen McDuffee; James Dunning Francis Dunning...
Szabo leaves his wife Brenda Dyer Szabo ’48, his daughters Ellen B. Szabo, Rebecca D. Szabo and Jeannette D. Szabo, a son Stephen Szabo and four grandchildren...
...travel companion, Dyer is a lively raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout...
...Ultimately, Dyer is so enamored of his own decline that he cannot be bothered to get on with his rebirth. Perhaps that's as it should be. In an early chapter, he meets a vacationing Swede who has had a dead baby shoved in his face by an Indian beggar. "We were all horrified and, I think, more than a little envious," he writes. "All visitors to the developing world, if they are honest, will confess that they are actually quite keen on seeing a bit of squalor." And readers, if they are honest, will confess that they are more...