Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subterranean Pyrenees his own, and this is a promising chapter in applied hydrogeology." In Ten Years Under the Earth, a book full of first-rate scientific adventure which has been saluted by the French Academy of Sciences, he relates, among many others, this plunge into the Earth's dark bowels...
...Dark Rapture (Mr. & Mrs. Armand Denis; TIME...
...been scared to death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt and a dark blue tie with a small oval figure...
Except for this last-minute affirmation, it might seem as though it was Danton's Death that Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." For the play is a dark forest of conflicting themes, can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged...
...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...