Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teatro Comunale in ancient Florence one night last spring, it seemed to the swank audience watching the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, part of the city's "Musical May" festival, that Dancer Leonide Massine was behaving oddly indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine...
With all the science of 5,000 years of civilization at his command, a Connecticut geology professor last week was puzzled by a problem which intrigued ancient Ulysses. Ulysses watched the slim dark fishes dart from the Mediterranean, spread their big fins, and shoot through the air 25 to 30 m.p.h. for as long as 13 seconds, just as Magellan watched them, just as U. S. holiday voyagers on cruises to Havana and Caribbean ports watch them. But do they fly or glide...
...fatal line consisted of four creosoted poles, invisible in the dark since they were unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co. some time ago. No one formally notified the airport of the obstruction, but the gang of nine men on the job worked under bright headlights from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that...
...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
...Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking in two ; the hollow rumbling of the big river swelling down below...