Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than three years before, a badly shaken and bellicose Nikita Khrushchev had flown into Warsaw only to find that he had been outmaneuvered: the new boss of Poland-which had come so close to open rebellion against the Soviet Union -was none other than Wladyslaw Gomulka, an out-of-favor Communist whom Stalin had once arrested for refusing to castigate Tito. "Traitor!" Khrushchev bellowed at him during that all-night 1956 session in the Belvedere Palace. "If you don't obey, we will crush...
...Pardue continues to deserve a place among the top rank of contemporary organists. She has on more than one occasion proved herself to be a finer musician than many of the organists with a big reputation. Her playing last night was about as close to being note-perfect as any live organ recital I can recall. She manifested facile fingers, fleet feet, and fluid phrasing. Her choice of registration was always judicious, effective, and appropriate to the style and period of the pieces she performed. And there was none of the dreary or mechanical dispiritedness that characterizes so much organ...
With Roman clang and massiveness, Coriolanus tells the tale of an inhumanly prideful patrician who almost singlehanded repels the invading Volscians, later is rejected by the fickle people he saved, vents his contempt by joining the enemy to turn on them. At the close, Sir Laurence dangles headfirst from a ten-foot rostrum while he is stabbed to death in a blood-drenched mob scene that is powerfully-and consciously-reminiscent of the battering of Mussolini's body...
...such remote bodies are very tough to calculate accurately. Only when the august Harvard College Observatory confirmed Taylor's calculations did the occultation of Regulus become a serious concern of world astronomy. The U.S. was ruled out as a major observation point because Venus and Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...
...surrounds the earth. Ionized particles from the sun zigzagging back and forth in Jupiter's magnetic field must be sending out "synchrotron radiation" like the circling particles in a synchrotron. The theory alerts future space explorers to steer well clear of Jupiter. If their ship should cruise too close, they might be fried by Van Allen radiation 100 times as strong as that surrounding earth...