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...this season's nine-show series, 23,000 subscription books have already been sold in a city that also supports two other legitimate theaters. Most of the Fisher's offerings will be secondhand Broadway but Detroit can look forward after The Gay Life to two more special events: the road opening of a new musical called The Crime of Giovanni Venturi (with the Metropolitan Opera's Cesare Siepi), and the pre-Broadway trial of Richard Rodgers' No Strings...
That is how Henry David Thoreau felt in July 1845 as he went into the woods at Walden Pond. He built himself a little cabin, largely out of secondhand materials, the cost of which he recorded in precise Yankee style: $28.12½, including a 10? latch and a penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch...
With the third edition of London's Sunday Telegraph safely tucked into bed, its bone-weary parent and editor in chief climbed into his secondhand Morris station wagon at 1 a.m. and headed for his Buckinghamshire country estate. Behind the Hon. William Michael Berry, 50, second son of the first Viscount Camrose, stretched 20 weeks of late Saturday nights -and the special satisfaction of having succeeded when his competitors were smugly certain that he would fail. In less than five months, the Sunday Telegraph, London's first new Sunday paper in 42 years,* has clearly established its capacity...
...into an affair, and soon she finds herself pregnant. She has an abortion, and what follows is a subtly detailed, enormously effective chronicle of mental collapse. When she learns that her lover is having an affair with someone else, she takes to roaming the streets at night in her secondhand car, following the couple from bar to bar, parking outside the man's apartment until the lights in his bedroom snap off. She manages to break up the affair, but it does not help. Whenever she feels "the quivering, shaking uncertainty coming near her," she sneaks off and recites...
...Secondhand Trumpet. Back home in Cleveland, where his father is a factory worker, gifted Vince La Selva begged for and got a secondhand trumpet when he was eight. As a prized member of his high school band, La Selva was allowed to conduct occasionally, but when he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, it was to study the trumpet. At Juilliard, La Selva organized a 60-member student orchestra, later revived it when the Army stationed him at Governors Island...