Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A newly converted Catholic, soul-seasoned in the sun of North Africa...
Imaginative people have mulled the idea for years. Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, who visualized the earth's shell as a living creature, made his fictional Professor Challenger poke a sharp drill eight miles down, called his story When the World Screamed. AMSOC's goal is to pierce the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which scientists call the Moho for short...
Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...
...gift, to extend over an eight year period, will help the School of Education develop some of its new teacher training programs. One of these is an apprentice arrangement, whereby college graduates work part-time as teachers in neighboring schools while pursuing their studies in the University...
...Eight other colleges also received Ford gifts for developing new teacher training methods. Among these were Barnard College, the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Stanford, Brown and Duke Universities. The grants totaled over $9.1 million...