Word: eon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given license to inflict ten songs. Like the pupils' Latin lessons...
...starkly simple duet lasted only minutes, but to the mesmerized audience it seemed to have gone on for an enchanted eon. In a way, it had. For the couple onstage, last week's duet climaxed a full half-century of love and labor in which the dance had finally taken root in the U.S. theater, to grow and to flower until its inventive brilliance influenced the art in every corner of the world...