Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame from burning kerosene and nitric acid fuels. After the eight missiles had gone up, quick-thinking Lieut. Robert F. Daly, the battery commander, dashed out of his office, ordered the remaining Nikes dropped by elevator to their 20-ft deep concrete storage pits...
...play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed to embrace Conductor Kondrashin, he won shouting, standing ovations-and a deep-throated roar when he finally sat down to his encores : Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau, the finale of Samuel Barber's Sonata and the Schumann-Liszt Widmung. The critics chimed in with the crowd. Sample: the New York Times's Ross Parmenter called Cliburn "a major talent," found that...
...knows whether this fall's showdown will be fought by lawyers or rednecked mobs. The cities affected are not truly Deep-South. Arlington has only 6.8% Negroes in its school system; its citizens, if not in favor of integration, at least want to keep the schools open. Charlottesville is the moderate-minded home of the University of Virginia. But each community has a possible source of violence: the few dozen "Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties," a kind of dandied-up White Citizens' Council...
Marcel Cardinal, an ex-commando captain, began underwater exploration out of curiosity, rapidly became an addict. He took to carrying a sketchbook with him to the Cannes beach, would plunge into the deep blue sea off the Côte d'Azur, then flipper to the surface to jot down notes. Worked up first in watercolor and finally in oils, his paintings evoke the mysterious transparency of undersea scenes where objects-a ship's hull, rock outcropping-loom more evocatively than their above-the-surface counterparts...
...rewards for the deepsea plunger. Swanson finds, are great and varied: "In northern waters the general atmosphere of the sea is rather somber, a deep mystical green, like a dark cathedral. In tropical waters the colors are overwhelming, like a gaudy festival." Swanson has discovered that underwater one can work over, around and sometimes under the subject matter. "The problems,'' he likes to muse, ''may be comparable to those man will have when he begins to draw in outer space...