Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiddle hugged to his paunch, he looks more like a village baker dozing over a sack of meal than any possible kind of artist. But then he begins to play. Sudden, full, supple, the big contralto of the cello speaks. The music rushes like a river from a cave. And soon the audience may become aware of a peculiar thing. When Casals plays, it is no more possible to sort out the separate notes in the seamless flow of the music than it is to sort out the separate drops of water in a river. For Casals, a composition-from...
...also twelve, was smothered to death in 1953 by a sand cave-in at Nantucket...
...turned out the job was one of the toughest in Big Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled...
...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
...Since the Cave I discovery, ten other caves have been found containing scrolls or fragments of scrolls, are now being pieced together and deciphered at the Scrollery in the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the Jordan-occupied Old City of Jerusalem (TIME, April...