Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver tower crackled into life. Captain Appleby was south of Cheyenne, Wyo. at 8,500 feet and letting down to land at Denver. That was all anyone ever heard from him. Twelve hours later, search planes spotted the still-smoldering wreckage splattered along the slopes of 10,500-foot Crystal Mountain near Fort Collins, Colo. The DC-6, some 40 miles off its course, had glided into the mountain side at the 8,600-foot level, furrowed a 50-foot-wide path through the pines, skipped a ravine and disintegrated in a burst of flame half a mile beyond...
...show produced one clean hit: Ravel's La Valse, danced by members of the New York City Ballet. As the camera caught the sweep and color of the dancers, the background came alive with the gold and crystal of chandeliers, the black and blue checkerboard of floor, the blue and silver of walls...
...This novelist turns from fighting G.I.s to political neurotics, sees little hope for the future in the left-wing crystal ball of his second book...
Every hundred years, it appears, the British have a festival. One century ago they set up the Crystal Palace and opened it with a mighty singing of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Crammed with inventions and works of art, the Crystal Palace managed to impress the contemporary world, and eventually inspire a traditional lecture at Harvard, Professor Owen's on the oddities of mid-Victorian taste. This year the British have an exhibition going again but it's unlikely that there'll be much fun making at its expense...
...chronological order, so that the more accessible pieces would be played first. Neither the Buxtehude nor the Schein works are particularly startling, and they put the audience in a receptive mood for what was to follow. A good part of the credit must go to soprano Faith Barnett, whose crystal-clear voice, especially in the higher registers, and sensitive phrasing made her the outstanding soloist of the evening...