Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night long the furies of wind and sea pounded the yacht while Claude clung desperately to a spar. Before dawn the ship's cook went mad and drowned himself. At daybreak three sailors had succeeded in swimming ashore. The last aboard the yacht, Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort...
Unquestionably, the brightest part of the show is, Nita Talbot's portrayal of Gloria, the sexy dumb blonde living in an upstairs apartment. The only way to describe Gloria is to imagine, it possible, a composite of Judy Holiday's Billie Dawn and Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Talbot's deadpan delivery of the brightest lines in the play and her wonderful sense of timing stamp her as the outstanding performer in a capable cast. Anne Jackson as Coralie is light and easy to look at; Hugh Reilly as the sophisticated and suffering mate comes through with the proper nonchalance...
...Brother Explains. One morning before dawn, huge trucks hauled the troops out to the AEC proving grounds. The loudspeaker voice nicknamed "Big Brother" boomed out instructions: sit down, back to the blast, count three after the flash, then swing around, but don't get up. Some of the men played cards, others tried to read, played nervously with Geiger counters, or just stared at the dust-pluming jeeps scurrying from group to group...
Money worries were flicked aside: "We'll be two little silkworms and live on mulberry leaves." Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
...hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life. A sketch of Marie Antoinette riding to the guillotine does the same for "The Age of Revolutions." Missouri Painter George Caleb Bingham's Verdict of the People gives weight to the concluding chapters on America...