Word: aurora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention, and has plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into senility, and we learn that loafers are almost never happy and that the restless will always be restless. The message is not very significant...
...Poets' Theatre, under guest director Otto Asherman, has given the play a vivacious production. All acting honors go to Patricia Guest (Aurora), a lovely young lady who displays all the stupidity, vanity, and carnality the role demands. Edward Thommen, who frequently directs shows at Poets', recovers early from a shaky start, where he seems self-conscious as the Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed...
...Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture). U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was asleep, and a U.S. Red Cross missionary, Raymond Robins, was writing in his diary: "A great day for Russia and the world...
...Commuted to 55 years in prison the death sentence of Army Private Richard A. Hagelberger of East Aurora, N.Y., who had been sentenced to die for the murder of two German civilians...
...Astronomy, outlined the project before the convention of the American Astronomical Association. They explained that they hope to determine in what ways meteors affect humans and to check the accuracy of some of the current contentions concerning them. One Australian scientist maintains that meteors or meteor dust cause the aurora borealis and torrential rains...