Word: dim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comet Arend-Roland was discovered last Nov. 8 by S. Arend and G. Roland of the Royal Observatory at Uccle. Belgium. At that time it was a faint, hazy object, much too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers studied its motion and decided that it would pass within 30 million miles of the sun. Heading for outer space again, it will come within about 52 million miles of the earth on April...
...enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide of history that laid waste Jerusalem and began the great dispersion of the Jews. For nearly 19 centuries nothing remained of the covenanters but a dim tradition and a ruin in the desert like an enormous graveyard. Christianity spread from Palestine, Rome fell, Mohammed's conquering armies passed within a few miles of that graveyard; so again and again did the Crusaders, never suspecting its secrets. Today Qumran is yielding up those secrets while...
...Association. Indeed, the very nickname for the group, "Dramat," bears a ring that might testify to an infatuation with mechanical efficiency. To some of the visiting directors, however, the Isenour Board was something of a Frankenstein's Monster--it exhibited an alarming tendency to make the lights flicker and dim at the wrong time...
...hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which effectively decreases the awkward closeness to the audience, the scene shows excellent interplay among the enemies as Titus feigns madness and delicately winds revenge around his visitors...
...father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist for dim but gallant little periodicals, then graduating to the rambunctious Sydney Bulletin...