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...both are a rarity today. California Sociologist Robert Fulton estimates that the average American family can go for 20 years without encountering death, which is more than ever confined to old people. And the old people are more than ever out of the way, many of them in playpen "Sunset Villages." Their absence, and the universality of the hospital, means that dying is done offstage; gone are the hushed house, the doctor's visits, the solemn faces, the deathbed scenes that put death in life's perspective. Children of the TV generation are such strangers to natural death...
...After sunset on Oct. 20, a strange and luminous object will rise above the western horizon and make a broad sweep across the darkening sky. Beginning as a fuzzy smear of light, it is expected to grow brighter and brighter until its 20 million-mile tail stretches put to look like a new Milky Way; then its head will appear with a light as great as the full moon. As the newly discovered Ikeya-Seki comet makes its rendezvous with the sun, it will curve high above the northern sky in one of the most spectacular celestial shows...
...speech, even his taste in cars. In 1963, when he was awarded a Corvette as a prize for being the most valuable player in the World Series, Koufax called up a friend and sighed: "It's a toy-but what the hell." He is rarely seen in the Sunset Strip nightspots, hates the telephone so much that he used to hide it in the oven He even refuses to hire an answering service because that would mean calling back. "If it's important," shrugs Sandy, "they'll send a letter...
...best-known epigrams. Less well-known is his balancing phrase, "but all nature cries out to us that he does exist." Nothing summed up Voltaire's puckish, often contradictory private honesty more than an incident in his 80th year. Overwhelmed by the beauty of a hilltop sunset, he knelt and cried, "O Mighty God, I believe!" However, as he got to his feet he had second thoughts: "As to Monsieur the Son and Madame his mother, that is another matter...
SOLO MONK (Columbia). Pianist Thelonious Monk offers greater range and variety-from the simple lyric line to complex, sophisticated jazz-than any other musician playing today. I Should Care is dismembered and recomposed almost chillingly; North of Sunset comes out as old-fashioned blues. He even makes Ruby, My Dear, a song he has played for more than 30 years, sound fresh...