Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better. I won't sing when you're conducting," and stomped offstage. During the preparations for her La Scala appearance, she climaxed an argument with the wardrobe mistress by snatching a pair of scissors and snipping a costume into pieces. The onlooking cast and chorus burst into applause, an Italian tribute to a flare of real temperament...
...ideal alarmed some of Caravaggio's contemporaries, but what troubled them most was his chief pictorial invention-the dramatic light and darkness that flooded his canvases. The eye cannot travel back into the gloom; it stops; instead, the muscular, straining limbs and backs that Caravaggio delighted in painting burst highlit from the picture surface. Form is almost literally shoved in the viewer's face. David with Head of Goliath, a painting of 1600 (which may, in the view of experts, be the work of a very close imitator), shows how this drama worked. The light pours over...
...represents Beck's writing at its best. It's a strong driving number, arranged in such a way that all of the instruments can be distinctly heard. Beck's guitar work, as always, is superb. Punctuating here, leading there, always coaxing and teasing until it rushes on in a burst of energy. "Situation" and "Short Business" are also on Side One. They are both fast-paced songs, but noteworthy only for Beck's guitar work...
Given the spur of fresh competition, the Europeans are plainly hoping to repeat their early burst of economic growth, which after averaging 9% a year from 1958 to 1969 has slowed considerably in the past two years. The expanded Common Market's influence will stretch from the equator-counting former French and British African colonies that have been granted special trading arrangements-almost to the North Pole, assuming that Norway joins after a referendum next summer, along with Denmark and Ireland. The Ten will have a population of 258 million (see map), a combined gross national product that...
Finally, a drama center was made possible for Harvard by a huge gift from John Langeloth Loeb '24. The Loeb Drama Center opened in 1960 as the most elaborate theatre on any campus in the United States. With the Loeb came a burst of interest in theatre. The sixties saw extravagant productions in the Houses: Agassiz also began to be used more heavily as a less intimidating alternative to the Loeb...