Word: transients
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...remaining in Cambridge are invited to take their meals at Dunster House dining hall, to be paid for with coupons at transient rates. Students planning to sign on for regular board for this receas may do so at the Dunster House dining hall...
...other Americans reach new heights of affluence and aspiration, slum kids are made to feel all the more worthless by their poverty and the color of their skin. Often, dinner is a hamburger served in a paper bag; books are nonexistent; home is a rooming house so transient that in a recent year 50% of all Manhattan pupils switched schools, making a mockery of sustained education...
Thus everyone shares time's cruel burden, trapped by the memory of transient pleasures impossible to renew, tragic errors impossible to erase. Only the nubile "niece," played with a fine flair by Nita Klein, escapes untouched for now. "I've had enough of this dump with all its memories," she snaps, and takes herself right back to Paris...
...diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest, Anthony, is a student at Harvard Law. Gradually, over the years, whatever there was of the man behind the image...
...children first. His subject matter concentrated on them, their preening, their chance encounters, their intimate moments of tenderness, love and sadness (see color). He sculpted fleeting human gestures as they appeared through sunlight, shade, haze, even gaslight. And he thus became the first sculptor to travel into the transient world of the French impressionist painters-a little-acknowledged fact that is well substantiated in a show of 28 of his works, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute Italiano di Cultura in New York, which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...