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...Joyce, Durrell, and others, Miller wants his audience to emulate him: not as a professional, or even an amateur writer, nor in any specific activities, but in the ecstatic experience of life without its restricting illusions. He would resurrect the body and the soul, the tiny pleasures and the grandest visions; but for either of these purposes, the illusions must be destroyed that seduce man away from himself. Hope of any salvation from some external event is the greatest of these illusions; only out of an absolute nihilism can spring the immediate values and joys of life. When...
...soak up culture in the lobby looking at the statues. You could buy popcorn under a 40-ft. ceiling, or slump in a lounge that made the baths of Caracalla look like a bird-feeding station. The oldtime movie palaces were (and in some glorious cases still are) the grandest, most begilt structures-inside, at least-ever plastered together; here pictures and text combine for a properly sentimental obituary...
Doug Dillon spent a secluded, affluent childhood in a series of suburban homes around New York City. The grandest o'i them all was Dunwalke. an estate in Far Hills. N.J.. that his father has owned since 1920. A wiry child who could read swiftly and understandingly at the age of four, Dillon was sent to be educated in private schools. The most challenging was the Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst. N.J., whose headmaster insisted that his every pupil learn the art of reading fast-and Dillon today riffles through even technical papers at 400 words a minute...
...Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within five days, in addition to Joan Sutherland's remarkable New York debut (see New & Excellent) it is plain that an exciting new generation of singers has taken hold-a generation that may reduce some of opera's grandest old names to mere echoes in the memory...
...sport -it is the most important event on winter's social calendar. Once the winter wheat is in the ground in towns like Sharon Springs, Kans., there is little else to do but watch the games on Tuesday and Friday nights in the $190,000 school gym, the grandest building in the county. In Ohio, the citizens of Bethel Township regularly drop past Ray Morrison's general store to rock on their heels around the stove and talk of the local high school team (12 and 6 this season) and of Ohio State University's national champions...