Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When directors undertake to dust off Shakespeare plots, the noise of the vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually...
Pattern for Progress. It is along the Gulf Coast, where Texas has had its greatest industrial growth, that the state has its major water problem. To the east of Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs...
Spain is a land of mystery where the dust of isolation has often settled on men's work and obscured their lives. In this sense no artist is more typically Spanish than Francisco de Zurbaran, one of Spain's great masters. Until 1905, about all that was known of him came from a yellowed packet of papers and a few disputed paintings found in out-of-the-way monasteries. That year, the first Zurbaran exhibit in modern times was held in Madrid, and the experts marveled that so little was known of the artist whom King Philip...
...Sleuth Caturla's most exciting find: magnificent series of ten scenes of The Labors of Hercules, done against mythical backgrounds. For years the ten had gathered dust in the vaults of Madrid's famed Prado Museum. Experts thought that they might be Zurbaran's work, but no one was sure. Rooting around in the archives, Maria Luisa Caturla was rewarded with a faded document bearing the seal of Philip IV's royal notary and stating that Francisco Zurbaran had been paid 1,100 ducats for a series of paintings representing Hercules and his tasks...
What actually happened at the test was less reassuring. Just after the explosion, a cloud of radioactive dust settled over both houses. Three hours later, the farther house was still so radioactive that it could be entered for only a few minutes. Since this kind of radioactivity decays rapidly at first, its intensity must have been enormously higher just after the dust fell. People huddled in the basement shelters would certainly have been killed by this silent, insidious force...