Word: darker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winter Comedy," Christopher Fry's own description of his new play, is appropriate. The gay pastels of humor which clothed the British writer's earlier verse plays have changed to colors of a darker hue, and philosophy, not fun, is the keynote of The Dark Is Light Enough. The change of mood has not been an entirely fortunate one, since Fry is more attractive as a writer of comedy than as a deep thinker. But if the tone is new, the language is as it always was: a brilliant flight of imagery that demands air and open space and seems...
After-supper athletics, darker mornings, and an hour's less sleep on Sunday will mark the return of Daylight Saving Time to Boston this weekend. Scores of would-be athletes are expected to crowd the tennis courts Monday night to commemorate the event...
AMONG U.S. industries, none has a darker future than municipal transit. In only ten years, the transit companies in U.S. cities have lost almost half the 23 billion fares they carried yearly. At the same time, operating costs have soared (wages and equipment up almost 100%), and operating income (before bond interest and stock dividends) has plunged from $149 million to $41 million. Since 1947, 40 major companies have gone broke. Because of the rapid deterioration of transit facilities, downtown merchants are losing trade to the suburbs, office workers are quitting jobs in downtown business districts, and in the most...
Daily usefulness, however, soon began to push any moral significance into the darker corners of the hall. For students used the large room as a notoriously rowdy dining hall. When Carrie Nation, famous hatchet-wielding prohibitionist, discovered that Harvard diners are wine jelly and harm with champagne sauce, she made a dramatic appearance in Memorial Hall. The hour was 3 p. m., the date, November...
Hashim, a family man with six children, is stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 147 Ibs.), looks like a darker, balding version of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Says Hashim: "I want to play to make propaganda for my country. I am getting a little too old for the game now, but my air-force sponsors tell me I must play for three or four more years, and I never forget that they have made me what I am. I kill myself for them and to keep Pakistan the champion in squash...