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...been expected that Mr. Trumbull Stickney, our gifted scholar and poet, who had initiated the performance, would play a leading role, and he had planned to vanish over week-ends during the winter "to the bleakest and loneliest sea beach in New England" (Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard?) to walk its sands while memorizing the whole play. Death took this gracious person, and he is grievously missed. The part of Choregos, which is probably the heaviest in the drama, was then assumed by Mr. Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge...
...another, whether they wither away, become dormitories in suburbia or merge with neighboring communities, the small towns of old are vanishing, and with them will vanish one dimension of the nation's life. The small town had its defects as a place to live in, and urban Americans who know it only from the pages of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and other look-back-in-disgust fiction-eers are likely to think of the small town only as narrow, ingrown, stunting. But for many, life there had its compensations -countryside within walking distance, acquaintances rather than hurrying strangers...
...disaster. The effects of the information blackout, now in its forty-seventh day, have been enormously destructive to the city's social political and economic life. As for the closing down of the unstruck papers, it is inexcusable; many of the injurious consequences of the strike would vanish if the Post, the Mirror, and the Herald-Tribune would get back into print tomorrow, as they easily could. The strike itself is a more complex matter. The dispute over a wage increase, though complicated by intra- and inter-union politics, can be solved through collective bargaining. But automation is the problem...
Blunted Senses. The power of speech, and the ability to write and walk, are measurable. Far more elusive, says Dr. Diller, are the variations in loss of memory. Usually, it is knowledge of recent and current events that seems to vanish. But it may be the memory of colors, or dates, or shapes, or perhaps most significant, of emotionally important events. Even the senses present puzzling problems. Vision may become poorer, but so subtly that the beset patient does not recognize his difficulty. Or he may be depressed by a general decline in his responsiveness to sensory stimuli...
...Nicklaus is the slowest player I've ever seen," Sarazen, a two-time Open champ (1922, 1932), told a group of scholarship-winning caddies in Boston. "Slow play becomes a disease. My most vivid memories of slow players are that they vanish quickly from the scene." Sarazen said that he and an 80-year-old partner can still go 18 holes in 2½ hours; Nicklaus has been known to take a good deal longer...