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...fortunate. Weeks went by ... and never a day passed sunless ... The thin little wild crocuses came up mauve and striped, the wild narcissi hung their winter stars. (page...
With Dantesque confidence, Miss Carson moves down into the sunless depths of the sea, describes the bottom sediment (in some places 10,000 feet deep), sketches the contours of the submarine mountain ranges, and speculates on the changes in sea shape. As she tells her story with scientific assurance and a happy freedom from scientific jargon, curious bits of information emerge...
...Sweden, it is smiles. Bonniers, largest publishing firm in Sweden, is sponsoring a smiles campaign which is calculated to brighten the sunless months. The Bonniers motto, plastered on walls and repeated in the newspapers: "Visa solsidan" (Show sunny side...
...ducking other brickbats. Stuyvesant tenants wrote indignantly that their quarters were equal to anything in town at two or three times the rental and "they feel that they are in heaven." Said Mumford grumpily: "Like almost all New Yorkers, who have spent most of their lives in cramped, sunless, dusty and even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words, of slums, semi-slums...
...mighty quiet in Stillman Infirmary's third floor ward Wednesday night, and a sunless Thankskiving was in prospect. "Old Faithful," the community radio, didn't work and there was neither music nor news...