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Some of the children's programs in themselves produce small armies from the metropolitan area. Over 1,200 youngsters, for example, in late April each year, descend on the University for PBH Kids...
...Flex Wing has no conventional control surfaces. Its pilot and 100-h.p. engine hang well below the kitelike wing, and control is accomplished by tilting the wing with respect to the heavy, low-hanging engine. If the leading point of the wing is lowered, the Flex Wing tends to descend. When the wing is tilted to the side, the Flex Wing banks and turns...
...remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on their own. Later models will need stabilizing devices to take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently on the rugged surface of the moon...
...inaudible dialogue, the invisible actors (they studiously avoided the spots of light in which they were supposed to stand), the embarrassing moments of silence (while actors waited for props to descend from the ceiling), the inappropriate music, the stiff and ungainly choreography--all might have been bearable had there been any actors on stage who knew what they were doing...
...conduct was to become humanized through Liu's example. Calaf's cruel desertion of Liu and Timur and Turandot's vicious behavior towards her subjects and suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed), the composer intended Calaf and Turandot "to descend through love to the level of mankind." They would at times echo Liu's touchingly simple music. Her sacrifice would not have been in vain. But, at the same time, through the sheer excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that...