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...TIME'S Saigon contingent, the little time they spend in the villa at No. 7 Han Thuyen is a welcome change from the workaday hazards they share with the troops in the field. All the rooms are air-conditioned -when the power does not fail. And more important, correspondents can send their copy over one of the few direct press communication links with New York, via radio to Manila and then cable...
Barbaric Chords. The result of Schippers' assemblage is a remarkable triumph of sight and sound. Though the opening scenes are somewhat workaday Rossini, the opera comes into its full glory in the third act, which begins with an unusually long (14 minutes) aria by Home. Rossini's lyrical melodies shimmer and flow as beautifully as a moonlit Aegean. Then, before the curtain falls on the burning, ravaged Corinth, the orchestra sweeps through a series of harsh, barbaric chords that sound almost Wagnerian...
Just about everybody did. In a game where fractured ribs and split noses are merely workaday inconveniences, Orr has compiled an impressive medical record. In a 1967 exhibition game he tore the ligaments in his left knee. He recovered in time for the season's opener only to have his right shoulder smashed out of its socket. The cartilage in the same knee was ripped two months later; he has since undergone two knee operations, and was sidelined for nine games this season. "People tell me I'm brittle," he says, "but I can't afford...
...Smith, a young carpenter from Long Beach, Calif. Smith, who took aboard a female passenger in Sydney, Australia, stopped in Durban long enough to marry her. All the travelers knew or had heard about each other. They belonged to a very special fraternity that has sailed away from the workaday world...
Crude Circus. With the exception of Leaving the Yellow House, published in Esquire in 1957, the early stories are staged with willing if befuddled ac- tors who are too deeply involved with workaday concerns to do much lofty abstracting. In The Old System (1967) and Mosby's Memoirs (1968), the protagonists are aging rationalists of considerable accomplishment. Both are shown trying to define the meaning of their own lives by musing about the weaknesses of people they have known...