Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reduced Drag. Wind-tunnel data revealed that when the airflow reached sonic and supersonic velocities along the redesigned upper surface, only a modest shock wave was generated near the trailing edge of the wing. There was negligible turbulence. Although the changes did not affect lift, drag was reduced by as much...
...strikingly uniform. The black demands represented a legitimate complaint about the university, and sooner or later something would be done to correct it. "The demands will be met eventually, and most of the blacks will be kicked out," one of the active white protestors said, "this doesn't affect me physically even though I suppose it bothers me morally that I'm not going to be punished...
Memories of both men influence Siggy's desire for freedom, his somewhat antic character. Yet he feels cursed by not having lived through World War II himself. Instead, he feels, he has been consigned by history to a time in which he cannot dramatically affect the course of events or participate in them. Siggy's anger at the present, and his awareness that it is haunted by the past, are reinforced in other sections of his notebooks, called "the Zoo Watch." These tell of nights spent at the zoo, where he catches the night watchman-an ex-Nazi...
...production has experienced some cast changes since the Broadway run, none of which affect the extraordinary quality of the production. Brian Murray, the original Rosencrantz, now has his characterization perfect. Laughing at the winds as he struggles along trying to penetrate the morass in which he finds himself, Murray makes his portrayal rival Alec McCowen's Hadrian in its timing and intensity. In addition, the Derek Goldby staging remains as graceful and moving as a year ago, and the Richard Pilbrow lighting plot still strikes me as the best I've ever seen...
...protest songs and heaping scorn on mine operators. The miners, some of whom wore black arm bands inscribed with skull and crossbones, were demonstrating for protection against "black lung," a disease caused by inhaling coal dust that can lead to illness or death. A form of pneumoconiosis estimated to affect three-fourths of the nation's 135,000 coal workers, black lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than old-fashioned picks and shovels. Says one United Mineworkers official: "It used to take a lifetime to get black...