Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neatly made-over barn overlooking the Hudson River at Croton. N. Y., live merry Trotskyist Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) and his husky Russian wife, Eliena Krylenko. whose brother is a Stalinist.* While white-maned Mr. Eastman works at his witty scribbles, blonde Mrs. Eastman teaches dancing, paints. After studying in Moscow, in Paris and under Manhattan's Jean Charlot, she has done capable portraits of most of her friends except her husband, whom she thinks she has yet to paint successfully...
...there exists no snugger sanctuary than "Sarobia," a 175-acre estate in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, on the Delaware River above Philadelphia. "Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests...
...believes that the estate should be as near to weedy nature as possible makes things easy for the outside servants. On "Sarobia's" grounds are 13 houses and cabins, one a guesthouse named "Runcible" after a Logan cat. and another a onetime roadhouse near the highway. In these live indigent poets, artists, thinkers, mostly obscure folk. Last week, on his annual visit to the Logans, arrived a more famed guest, Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had just returned from Europe...
...high-paid job with an ease accountable only by his birth. All of which has earned him a fairly general repute as a "problem child." Certainly Elliott Roosevelt's career is a prime example of a problem which very few men have to face-how to live a normal life when your father is President. Last week, having spent five years trying to solve the problem by working for others, 26-year-old Elliott squared off on another tack and prepared to go into business for himself...
...rapid progress in being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon as it is told, spoken or written down...