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  • n  an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

  • From a New York City schools re port: "High transiency pupils who enter low transiency schools evidently constitute a population somewhat different from that of high transiency .
  • As a fable of the "tense and frantic" '50s, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit catches a little of the social transiency of Commuterland, where the richest nomads in the world .
  • A few pieces survived the drift toward transiency to which most stories are prone: The Enormous Radio became a standard inclusion in fiction anthologies; The Swimmer inspired an .

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