Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verse play, called A Wind of Light, by Jonathan Revere, a Dunster House senior. It describes two shallow, dissolute Italian youths who are transformed into passionate tragic characters in a play they are acting out on a hot summer afternoon. The dialogue, though rough in many places is done with some skill and the illusion of the character transformation is reasonably effective. The vast, pseudo-profound generalizations in the tragedy sequence are not always successful, and a number of Revere's phrases (the title, for instance) though pleasant sounding, and even suggestive, have no actual maening. Even with these limitations...
...official Soviet announcement was a mixture of specific information and cagey reticence. "The launching was done," it said, "by means of a multistage rocket carrying an automatic interplanetary station. After reaching the necessary speed, the last stage of the rocket put the station into the required orbit...
...decided, the case did not establish the far-reaching precedent that the clergy wanted. Barrister Russell took the cautious line that the two Bembas had really done nothing to offend native law because, he showed, in modern Rhodesia the grain tribute is no longer really considered essential. If an individual's refusal to contribute was no longer an offense, then persuading others to refuse could not be an offense. The court agreed, rescinded the fines. But it did not decide what will happen if priests in future advise their converts to defy recognized and living native laws...
...reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...
...cruelly realistic portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that shows the aging lovers no more mercy than the hand of time has done. Yet by seeing them as they are, the picture also concedes to them a human quality that the society pages have failed to report...