Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were unusable. But that final frame turned the whole experiment into a resounding success. Last week, after careful analysis of the spectral lines recorded on his film, Morton was able to offer exciting new evidence toward the solution of an old astronomical enigma: Why are there so many white dwarf stars in the sky when there have been so few of the supernova explosions that are believed to produce them...
...Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero is a 23-year-old dwarf whose chief problem, as someone remarks, is that "it's only his mind that's warped, he's got a lovely little body." After a series of disjointed misadventures, he ends up drowned, a wisp of seaweed hanging from his sad little foot. What sets Author Mackay apart...
...bottle. Purex gave up, and by March 1958 its share of the Erie mar ket had sunk to 7%. Said the FTC, charging P. & G. with overwhelming its competitors: "In a fight to the finish, Procter & Gamble, whose aggregate scale of operations and fiscal resources dwarf the entire liquid bleach industry, cannot be bested." In 1963 the FTC ordered P. & G. to sell Clorox, and a decision on the company's appeal of that order is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati...
...White Devil, by John Webster. It was Shakespeare's destiny to dwarf his playwriting contemporaries, which by no means makes them dwarfs. Webster, best known for The Duchess of Malfi, was a splendid poet who mixed beauty with horror. If he spilled too much blood on stage, he also drenched the boards with passion. The decisive motion in The White Devil is a plunging dagger, but its determining mood is an obsessive sense of evil. In an admirable off-Broadway revival in modern dress, the play leaps the centuries with ease-it is galvanically alive...
...same people who don't like the dwarf don't like Lowenthal, the Jew. This ship, you see, is German, and the year is 1933. Tender-hearted Lowenthal laughs off the discourtesy of his shipmates: "There are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do, kill all of us?" At which point Kramer stops the music, ends the conversation, and gives the audience ample time to gasp...