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...need Competition. The big funeral once beloved by first-generation Americans is growing rarer. "It's a thing I can't explain," says Lloyd C. Kenwood, vice president and general manager of San Francisco's prestigious Halsted & Co., for which he has been "selling funerals," as they say in the trade, for 30 years. "But I do know that this generation seems to want things done more simply. It's probably the most significant trend since the 1930s, when people stopped hanging crepe on their doors, and funeral services were moved from the family living room...
...serving all this up, however, Hortense Calisher, a memorable short-story writer with one forgettable novel (False Entry) to her credit, has concocted something far richer and immeasurably rarer than the usual dreadful treacle of youthful domestic odyssey. Textures of Life, in fact, is a small masterpiece in a strange minor key, a little treasury of the obvious made miraculous by talent...
...overt cases of malaria are a rarity. Rarer still are cases of the so-called malignant form. Rarest of all is a life-threatening case of malignant malaria contracted by a patient while undergoing treatment in one of the nation's major hospitals...
Aspire or Expire. Off-Broadway is usually judged by its best efforts, while Broadway is often cavalierly measured by its worst. The present crisis of off-Broadway is that its best efforts are becoming rarer and rarer, and it is being swamped by its typical products, which are increasingly venal, sloppy, and predictable. For every promising Playwright Schisgal, there are a dozen silly spoofs of old movie musicals, or tasteless tours through neurotic junkyards of the mind, or criminal displays of self-ordained talent that might have lasted ten seconds before getting the critical gong on the late Major Bowes...
...rare are councils?there have been only 20 in the nearly 2,000 years of Christian history?that merely by summoning Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that...