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...Whisperers. Rattling around her scruffy flat, a penurious, retired domestic (Dame Edith Evans) lives a life of utter solitude in an atmosphere where the dripping of a faucet is a dramatic event. Her only companions are "the whisperers," unheard voices who speak in her cobwebbed brain, alternately providing her with companionship and terror. In the gritty industrial town in which she lives, time settles like the soot as she goes about her monotonous routine-a visit to the library to warm her feet on a radiator pipe; a stop at the police station to record the most recent threat...
...reminded Edith Sitwell of "cer tain brave men at the very moment of their rescue after six months spent among the polar wastes and the blubber." To Hemingway, he had "the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist." The object of these calumnies was Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first...
...played the beadle. Much of the House's opposition to the Teacher Corps had centered on the old issue of federal control over local education. After the program was dropped from an omnibus school bill this year, it was sent to an education subcommittee headed by Oregon Democrat Edith Green, a former schoolteacher whose firm ideas about education often differ from those of the Johnson Administration...
...menopause. Mrs. Brazier not only reported the phenomenon of infant crib deaths in Seattle; she ran photos of babies who had died, including the children of socially prominent families. Observing that the use of oral contraceptives in some cases enlarged women's breasts, the Atlanta Journal's Edith Hills Coogler interviewed the local Lovable brassiere manufacturer, who lovably agreed that he had to do some tinkering with his production line...
...culture and entertainment in one big section. "The women's page blends into so many areas," says Charlotte Curtis, "that one really doesn't know what to call it. Is it leisure, family, modern living?" Aware of the trend, women are looking ahead. Says Atlanta's Edith Coogler: "I wish we could do the whole paper...