Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two orbs high in the sky. Over on the side, the moon. It is full, bright, and irrelevant. And in the center, 120 feet above the diamond, the ball is frozen. Sweep down to the plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh...
...were dangling out over left field like the apples of God's eyes. It was one of those clear summer nights with a high sky and incandescent stars, just right for playing out romances and baseball games. The vast field stretched hugely and serenely in its allotted 500-foot arc, far below her gently swaying calves. And the white light from the towering black iron lamps stained everything into perfect hue: the brown and green of calves and grass, and the wine, orange, white of the players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore Orioles...
...protest British rule over the subcontinent, and she spent an intense, unhappy childhood prematurely immersed in the politics of rebellion. "I have no recollection of games, children's parties or playing with other children," she once said. "All my games were political ones-I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake...
...Levine, conductor; RCA, $6.98). There appears to be little that James Levine, 31, cannot do, except perhaps play Scott Joplin on the tuba. The remarkable new music director of the Metropolitan Opera already has several superlative operatic recordings to his credit (notably / Vespri Siciliani on RCA and Joan of Arc on Angel). This version of Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does...
...have trouble making a living. But I never worried." In the 15 years following his release from camp, besides working for that Moscow medical publishing house, Dolgun translated many English-language scientific books into Russian. In camp, he also tried his hand as an arc welder, a copper miner, a lock smith and an electrician. "Coming back to my own country should have been the easiest thing for me," Dolgun says...