Word: crystallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disclosures and fake tragedy to have their play classed as much more than a well-contrived nothing. They set up the double premise that one's destiny is inescapable, regardless of what steps are taken to change it, and that it is possible to see the future in a crystal-ball. Both points are in earnest, since Samarkand is not, strictly, a comedy. Having placed the scene in a circus tent, the authors call on some deft maneuvering by designer Ben Edwards to shift the setting, on a momentarily darkened stage, so that everyone can watch the future...
...Substantially as planned and edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo...
...news conference Ike said he would not reply to McCarthy's attack, that he would not engage in personal quarrels. What effect would a McCarthyite third party have on the Republican Party? Said Ike: "I have no crystal ball." He turned deadly serious and thumped the desk for emphasis as he continued: "If people want to split off ... that will have to be their business . . . The great mass of the people of the U.S. want intelligent, and what I would call a group of progressive moderates handling their business, and that is exactly what I am working...
Among them are Sea Birds (from the Metropolitan Museum) and Light in Autumn (opposite). Both have the flawed-crystal complexity, the hint of cubism applied to open air, that has become his trademark. Thon builds each composition on a lattice of smudgy rectangles, laid in partly with putty knives, and laces his sharp, delicate outlines well into the lattice. An extraordinary yet unobtrusive richness of texture results. More important, Thon's technique stretches and modifies the vision of the viewer. In his pictures, air has peculiar sparkle and density, and the things it seems to enclose look fragile...
...Miss Crystal Star was performing for a special audience. The 50 men and women (among them: a biochemist, two nurses, several housewives) were no ordinary Minskyites. They were members of a class in show business from Manhattan's mercurial New School for Social Research ("where serious-minded and mature students may gather to carry on their studies in a spirit of scientific inquiry"), founded in 1919 by such scholars as Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson. The students had come across the Hudson to Newark (theater burlesque is banned in New York City) to study one phase of their...