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...gnawing fear that Arthur Brodbeck captures brilliantly, "What is felt throughout the volume is an overpowering and painful sense of loneliness in American society. It is not so much that a great deal is said about loneliness. There are listed in the index rather disappointing references to only five lean remarks about loneliness. Yet the mood haunts almost every page, like an insistent and sorrowful background music...
Schuman, a lean, balding and relaxed man, is best known as a composer of symphonies ("I'm 7½ symphonies old," he said recently), quartets, cantatas, concertos, ballet scores. In 1943, he won the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded in music for his A Free Song. In 1949, he was commissioned to write Judith, music for a dance by Martha Graham...
Romance & Adventure. Schrotel came up the hard way. Son of a railroad car inspector, he was on his way to get a job as a dishwasher in the lean year of 1934 when his eye was caught by an announcement of exams for new police recruits. Schrotel passed easily, soon was assigned to night patrol duty in a scout car, and fell in love with his job. He still talks unabashedly of his "genuine thrill at the romance and adventure the position offered...
...Malays abhor, and the Malays slaughter cattle, which are sacred to the Indians. In two years the settlement has put 5,770 acres under cultivation, hopes to expand to 13,000. But often it takes seven years before a rubber tree yields rubber, so Bilut Valley will have seven lean years of waiting. But hopefully, the valley will then share in Malaya's years of plenty...
Shortage of Stones. Last week there was a rush of summer activity on West 47th as European buyers patrolled the street in search of fine stones. The newly affluent Europeans are now competing in ever-increasing numbers for the better diamonds that in the lean years after World War II went almost entirely to the U.S. market. Their demand, on top of the slowdown in the flow of new diamonds coming from the Congo and South African mines because of racial and political upheavals, has driven up prices, e.g.. a flawless, two-carat blue diamond that retailed for about...