Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers of attendants were busy spraying that great brain with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining...
Excellent at conveying a slightly alcoholic gaiety in people, Saroyan is far less persuasive about the all-abounding goodness in life. When his honky-tonk's lights dim to a prettier glow, when his wealthy drunk plays both God and Maecenas to prostitutes and bums, when the only bad man in the play is obligingly bumped off, there circulates a too-starry-eyed-or merely glassy-eyed-optimism...
Herman Shumlin's ability as director is evident in the fact that there are no serious flaws or lapses of pacing in the show. Presumably, too, he will get a touch more animation into Mr. Jourdan's performance. Actually, Samarkand is very near the peculiar, dim excellence of plays that are an unmodified good...
...what was once a dim prospect takes the form of hard reality, strategic planners see that atomic deadlock does not offer a stark, final choice between absolute mutual destruction and perpetual peace based on absolute mutual fear...
These days when the world has been keeping itself out of trouble with church socials and office parties, newspaper editors reverse their journalistic telescopes and take a far, generally dim, view of the approaching year. At the risk of appearing starry-eyed, the editors of the CRIMSON have tackled the zodiac and come up with the following predictions of things to come. It was the CRIMSON, you will remember, which alone predicted that '54's Miss Universe winner would come from the Western Hemisphere. With a little luck, perhaps we can do it again...