Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five o'clock-the buildings erupt: "My train, my bus, my subway, my ferry. Got a dime? Lend me a dime. See you tomorrow. I got to hurry, I miss my train. What time...
...trodden field of Othello with creditable success, marred only by the lead's unfortunate ineptness. Richard Heffron, in the title role, was more of a weight than a buoy to the show. Playing his early scenes in a sullen monotone, he gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions and an unbelievable temper...
...soft glow, the dead-black background of the murals seems to recede. Saturn with its rings stands out almost in three dimensions, clear and cold and quiet. The waving streamers of the aurora shimmer in a delicate pastel curtain. Flamelike solar prominences erupt from the surface of the sun with more clarity than in the original coronagraph pictures. Nothing seems to stand still: the murals vibrate with energy...
...faculty watched the Hudnut-Gropius disagreements seethe and finally erupt into a bitter personal feud. After the lucrative post-war years, when the G.I. bill swelled the school's enrollment, inflation began to slice the endowment. Hudnut rearranged his program, dropping some courses and firing some instructors, mostly Gropius' friends. Finally, he turned to Gropius' own pet course, Fundamentals of Design, which had been running on a special Corporation grant. As soon as the money ran out Hudnut discontinued the course. With this gone and the general prospect of forced economy, Gropius left the school, leaving behind the dregs...
...York began to erupt with one scandal after another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...