Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, is a prismatic play that throws its varicolored light on the theme of public duty v. private conscience. As Sir Thomas More, British Actor Paul Scofield gives a performance that is an incarnation...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. Rarely has the problem of duty v. conscience been posed with more precision of language and lucidity of thought. In Actor Paul Scofield, the hero Sir Thomas More is reincarnated...
...boasts a $5 million plant-including a heated clubhouse and a three-quarter-mile track that is specially designed to provide good footing, even when it is covered with snow. But Charles Town's persistent problem is still the freakish winter weather. In 1954, a bolt of lightning struck the starting gate, knocked out Starter Harold Holland and the two Percherons that were tugging the gate into position. In 1956, riders abruptly quit for the day after a 60-m.p.h. gust of wind blew Jockey George Stidham out of his saddle as he was leading the pack through...
...former German Olympic Ski Star Willy Bogner. In 1950, after Bogner's release as a prisoner of war (he had been an SS lieutenant), Willy and Maria bought a small factory just south of Munich, started making and selling sportswear. One day a salesman arrived with a bolt of a Swiss-patented kink-nylon and wool-yarn fabric called Helanca. It stretched up, down and sideways, then sprang miraculously back into shape. Maria ordered some and set about turning it into ski pants. Still svelte, she created a minor sensation wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, might have taken its theme from a line of Shakespeare's: "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own." As the subject, Sir Thomas More, Actor Paul Scofield is flawless...