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...group--all five together again--held fast for the next two days in biting cold and abandoned plans for reaching the summit. The group waited for a clear day, July 12, and descended to the relative warmth of the glacier (20 degrees the first night. One local report called the storm the worst in 25 years at Logan...
Istina runs away and comes back, attempts suicide, emerges occasionally into the blinding sunlight of sanity, then plunges again into the pit. She believes there can never be any cure, because what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed...
...very small indeed. The Glass children, moreover, are brave, clean, reverent, and overwhelmingly lovable. Yet they never become the seven deadly siblings (at least they are never all deadly at the same time). The Irish strain makes them formidably talkative and occasionally fey. The Jewish strain lends family warmth as well as a talent for Talmudic brooding. The vaudeville heritage provides theatricality...
...Hang In There." To understand the warmth with which Philadelphia greeted its tail-dragging homecomers is to understand the spirit of a city that somehow extracts pleasure from defeat. Just as Yankee fans expect a winner, Phillie fans have learned to expect a loser. The Phillies seldom let them down. No other major league team has lost 100 games a season so many times (13). No other National League club has won the pennant so rarely (twice). No other ball team begins a season with such little promise and ends it in such profound despair...
...remarkable as showpieces of architecture, interior design or luxury-in fact, considering the Kennedy wealth, they are relatively modest. The establishments are far beyond average pocketbook, and they have the kind of unobtrusive casualness that is far more expensive than it looks, but their total effect is one of warmth, not wealth. What their fellow citizens can see in the Kennedys' homes is taste-not of the avantgarde, pace-setting type, but the kind of taste that has the courage of its comforts. They are, for the most part, the homes of people who know what they like...