Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doves. Last week, on the second anniversary of The Bomb, the people of Hiroshima stood with bared heads bowed around a 43-ft. peace tower to hear a specially cast bell toll for Hiroshima's dead. Muffled sobs stopped when giant firecrackers began to slam like .50-caliber machine guns. Tiny parachutes bore peace festival streamers above the crowd. Thereafter, Hiroshima observed its day of disaster with singing, dancing and boating. Boys & girls pulled peace floats through unshaded streets...
Heavyweight. Long planned (TIME, July 8, 1946), the bathyscaphe is now about completed in Belgium. Cast as two steel hemispheres (see cut), it is 6½ feet in outside diameter. The walls are 3½ inches thick at their thinnest point. The professor thinks that they will withstand nearly 6,000 pounds of pressure per square inch-the pressure he expects to find more than 12,000 feet below the surface...
...responsibility of contemporary musicians, ' who are the trustees of the great composers, to resurrect [their works] to the best of their ability." Goldovsky streamlined the opera down to bearable length (2½ hours), straightened out some of the curves in its tortuous plot. Then he put a student cast and chamber orchestra to work...
...moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit of adolescent dizzy-dialectic* that might even become epidemic. And the whole cast, notably Mr. Vallee, is obviously having a fine "time. So will most people, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is good summer-weight comedy...
Prothalamium is a novel for readers who have time to read a book twice. It is a razzle-dazzle literary experiment whose pedigree, all too obviously, reads: by James Joyce out of Virginia Woolf. To help forestall and dispel confusion while following his cast of "Narrators," Author Philip Toynbee provides a lettered and numbered graph (something Joyce never did for Prothalamium1's mighty ancestor, Ulysses). Given this pretentious orientation, reading Prothalamium is something like doing sums in your head: drop one character and carry...