Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alpine Silence. In twenty seconds the work camp was buried a hundred feet beneath a blanket of ice. No sound came from the injured or trapped. There was only the Alpine silence, broken by the rippling of the Viege River. The dam itself was untouched. Next day, Swiss soldiers and rescue workers clawed at the mass in a drenching rain, once interrupting the search to run for their lives when word came that cracks in another large section of the glacier threatened to dump more ice onto the valley floor. Groaned one engineer: "This is like chipping away...
...claims that "you can always open Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and find some wonderful sequence about a Byzantine emperor gouging his son's eyes out." A psychiatrist might sneer that the compulsive repeater needs a familiar book for the same reason that Linus totes his blanket-as a form of security against the bristling insecurities of a strange environment...
Perhaps it is E. Power Biggs' program choices that have helped him rise to the heights of popular acclaim that he has achieved as an organist. Then again, his may be the same charm that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir oozes when its masses of sound blanket an audience. But judging from his concert at the Busch-Reisinger Museum this week, Mr. Biggs' fame could not possibly be due to the precision of execution that normally accompanies a virtuoso performance. It is unfortunate that an otherwise sensitive performance was upset by unevenness in rhythm in many passages throughout the evening...
...some initial muttering about the plane going astray "in bad weather." Later, it was suggested that the Telex line that was to relay the flight plan was out of order, and the French might have gotten a garbled version. This did not alter the fact that there is a blanket prohibition against foreign air photos of French soil without permission of the government; even when the U.S. wanted photos of the American cemetery at Ste.-Mère-Eglise last year, it had to get approval...
...death in a courtyard while observing the late-night debauchery below. Hustled back aboard ship, the children reveal unpredictable sensibilities when the boy's small sister creeps topside to ask: "If John's not coming back, Edward wants to know if he can have his blanket...