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...intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state of an artistic spirit...
...tension, however, does not preclude socializing. The lure of the opposite sex whittles away at snobbery, and there is much mingling between transient summer students and those who will be around to remember...
...University grew, Faculty members naturally became more isolated from each other. With a much larger non-tenured staff, most of whom have little prospect of winning a permanent place here, the University suddenly has "a sizeable transient teaching population...
...complaints and uncertainty, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. William Stewart, has taken a cautious position on the spray. In a letter to state and local health authorities, he warned that Mace's prolonged irritant ability "clearly increases the possibility of more than transient effects to the exposed individuals unless treatment is prompt." He added that further study would be necessary "to determine possible chronic effects." A spokesman...
...Orthodox liturgical choirs. The shallowness of sound and the noticable failure at the "Many Brave Hearts are Asleep in the Deep" bottom of the range are most likely the direct consequences of youth and the luck of the draw, since the club depends on an uncertain pool of transient talent. As for baritones, director Elliot Forbes seems to have struck a rich vein since the section contains at least three men capable of pleasing solo presentations. The had on the whole a good sound, but the second tenors (an imperious breed of specialists as difficult to find as second fiddles...