Word: cyclorama
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...could hang two Crucifixions over the Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta, and still have a border all round. The Cyclorama is a canvas 400 by 50 feet...
Dragon's Teeth is the third and best volume in Upton Sinclair's rich cyclorama of 20th-Century world history (World's End, Between Two Worlds, TIME, June 24, 1940 & March 24). It is the first to suggest that the completed work may, for all its lack of psychological and esthetic depth, be almost great. Great or not, few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as humane...
Production troubles have plagued director Ted Squiers '43 and his associates, for one of the leading players went on pro and had to be replaced by the assistant director. S. Leonard Kent '43. The Cambridge Fire Department labeled the cyclorama a fire hazard, and the Club was obliged to have it fire-proofed...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
...Drake, and a handful of courtiers. Says Elizabeth at the end of the show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours, our friends to share it. our enemies to shun it, our men to man it." While lights fade into a cyclorama of a British battleship riding a surging sea, spectators join in singing Land of Hope and Glory, burst into loud applause...