Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another misconception about what's amusing shows in the interpretation of Lysistrata. Marty Ritter plays a little dynamo instead of an elegant, slightly aloof character. So lines like, "there's something about women's temperaments that makes me hate them," come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata isn't an organization woman: her eyes are set on distant heavens full of available males. In fact, she can hardly wait to be dominated again. Miss Ritter behaves too much like Susan B. Anthony to convey the real dream...
...tail on the night side (TIME, April 22, 1966), it produces friction on the outer boundary of the magnetic field. This friction generates a positive electrical charge on the morning side of the boundary, a negative charge on the opposite, or evening, side. The charge is supplemented by a dynamo effect caused by the rotation of the earth and its magnetic field...
That the building exists at all is no less a miracle than Watts's riotless history in the two intervening years. Perhaps even more of a miracle is Dr. Elsie Giorgi, the dark-haired, 56-year-old dynamo who conceived the center and fought it through-despite threats of violence-to fruition...
Work Is the Key. Mary Elizabeth Switzer has spent 46 years in government, the last 17 as the highly successful head of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, which aids the handicapped. "She's a dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...
Fine Froth. Offenbach, a dapper dynamo with a prolific melodic gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces...