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Schroeder's wife, Margaret, showed Schroeder the house where he will live temporarily after he leaves the hospital and before returning to has home in Jasper...
...question about it, less than two days after undergoing two arduous operations, Bill Schroeder, a retired Government quality-control inspector from Jasper, Ind., was as sharp as a tack and feeling frisky...
...until about two years ago, Schroeder had lived a normal and active life. He was a popular figure in Jasper, a tightly knit farming community of 9,900 people, mainly of German-Catholic heritage. His home-a modest, white frame house with yellow plastic flowers hanging on the door-had been his father's before him; Schroeder's two brothers, ten aunts and uncles and numerous cousins all live within ten miles. After graduating from Jasper High School, he spent 15 years in the Air Force, serving as a flight controller, mostly overseas. He returned to Jasper...
...look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City to Humana Hospital Audubon, about 70 miles east of Jasper...
...infernal slurry of plaster, human faces and fractured skeletons held the poses of apocalyptic death agony. This year Morris returned to painting with a series of more ambiguous abstractions. But a skeletal frieze has been retained along the frame to specify the note of mortal dread. Similarly, in 1979 Jasper Johns embedded a train of cutlery along the perimeter of Dancers on a Plane, inspired by musings on the multiarmed Hindu god Shiva. "I was thinking about many-handedness," Johns explains. "I made the association with the handling of utensils, and put them along the edge to suggest that...