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...that strains to catch the Workers' every murmur, it is gratifying to hear them sing out boldly in the operas of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). His life-long concern over social conditions in the United States finds vigorous and artistic, yet undogmatic, expression in his music...

Author: By Aun Derrickson, | Title: Let the People Sing Out | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

...possibilities for psychic change may be greater in old age than at any other period of life. "Little attention has been paid to the wish to change identity, to preserve and exercise the sense of possibility and incompleteness against a sense of closure and completeness." When a person's identity is maintained throughout old age, "I find it an ominous sign rather than the other way around. If the term needs to be used at all, I suggest that a continuing, life-long identity crisis is a sign of good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Old in the Country of the Young | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

Miller is shown conversing and joking with some of his closest friends-Alfred Perles. Anais Nin, and Lawrence Durrell. Those meeting are not staged interviews but really show the intimacy between Miller and his life-long companions...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The Filmgoer The Henry Miller Odyssey | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

Hunt will take a year's leave before returning to a new executive post at Time Inc. Following a life-long love of the sea, he has bought a 57-ft. ketch that he plans to sail on a year-long cruise with his wife Anita and a few friends, going to Bermuda, the Azores, through the Mediterranean, along the Italian coast and to the Greek Isles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Change at LIFE | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...comments followed by ghastly croaks that begin somewhere down within his sinewy frame and emerge through a crooked row of half rotten teeth. When I asked him why they called themselves "Cream," he emitted the type of lecherous laugh that would turn anyone with an unmarried daughter into a life-long advocate of the police state: "It was a joke...a dirty joke...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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