Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal expenses. Declares a Greenwood businessman: "I say the shooting of Evers was a patriotic act. If Delay pulled the trigger that night, he must have felt he was doing it for the South and the state." Says a Beckwith friend: "Beckwith is a Joan of Arc, and his cause is to destroy the evil of forced integration. I don't think he is fit mentally. But Joan of Arc was a little abnormal...
...Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner and U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. To Colleague Bruner, "she is in the great tradition of the abbesses of the 16th century." Co-Panelist Zacharias, a frugal man with superlatives, says, "She may well turn out to be the Joan of Arc of education...
Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
...stairs and lobbies are globes of light, a child's army of upside-down lollipops. The stage itself juts forward like a mammoth home plate with a blunted tip, while a rear portico of four columns supports an upper platform. Around this arena stage sweeps a C-arc of 200°. some tiers of the 1,437 seats rising as steeply as bleachers, others sloping more conventionally, none more than 52 ft. from the playing stage. The seats come in twelve shades of color. Above hover the scattered grey clouds of the acoustical panels, some of which house...
...four men cooped up in a single cell pass the time. They call their quaint little game The Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...