Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST OF FOUR Harvard Summer Theater productions is a lost dog. Well, perhaps not lost--the Loeb's Experimental Theater is a comfortable home for The Dog Beneath the Skin--but the play is certainly without an owner...
...Reagan's newly elected Government was in power, Richard Nixon stirred a pitcher of exquisitely dry martinis in the study of his Manhattan town house and addressed the topic of the moment. General Alexander Haig had just been rumored to be the top candidate for Secretary of State. Beneath the famous brows, Nixon's dark eyes shone. "I know Al Haig," he said. "He is one of the most ruthless, toughest, ambitious s.o.b.s I know. He'd make a great Secretary of State...
...least two bombs hit the Sir Galahad. The Sir Tristram was raked with cannon and rocket fire. According to Michael Nicholson, a British television correspondent who witnessed the attack on the Sir Galahad from ashore, "boxes of ammunition aboard exploded, shaking the ground beneath us, and soldiers crouched as bullets from the ship whistled past." Hundreds of men rushed along the decks of both ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris...
...tasemating trasitional passage entitled "Calendar," the author traces a series of events spanning from "Registration" to "Grade Reports Issued." The essence of time itself, slipping, fleeing away--the days, weeks, even months--emerges with a subtle power. Accompanying the two page section is an illustration six students sitting beneath a tree in front of Robinson Hall one wearing striped basketball socks. They contemplate their calendars. The summer leaves hang attached to various branches...
Mandelbaum: I agree in part with that I think there is a kind of underlying reservoir of anxiety, if you will, or the collective pvsche of the American public, about nuclear weapons....This anxiety stays beneath the surface because most people would prefer not to confront the reality of our nuclear situation. But every so often something happens that compels people to recognize the peril in which we all live...