Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brecht smiles tolerantly. Off to the left the billows of cloud are agitated. Out of the turbulance emerges a small figure, black-haired and mustachioed. He turns three somersaults in plain view of the two authors. We discover he is Brecht's Arturo Ui. "In America," he says, "they think Three Penny Opera is a musical comedy." Brecht begins to weep. Ibsen hugs himself, pulls his knees up to his chest and falls off the chair, laughing...
...their experiment duplicates the conditions on Jupiter, they reason, the Jovian atmosphere may consist largely of red dye material. Because of white clouds of frozen ammonia crystals at the outer fringes of the atmosphere, the red atmosphere is largely invisible from above. But below the red spot, some scientists believe, there might be a giant meteor crater in the solid hydrogen surface of the planet. This crater, the NASA researchers suggest, may form a great vortex in the atmosphere that swirls the red-hued dye up through the cloud cover, thus creating Jupiter's distinctive red spot...
While hardly major, such mortifications are helping to cloud Percy's chances of being Illinois' favorite-son candidate at next summer's G.O.P. Convention. Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader, has indicated that he will not seek the role since he intends to head the platform committee. Now some downstate delegates, perhaps as many as 20 out of the total of 58, are threatening to ignore Percy and vote for Nixon or Reagan from the outset. Even so, Percy last week accepted the printing industry's Benjamin Franklin Award citing him as "a man of action...
...Saint-Cloud, France...
...cloud...