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Dates: during 1970-1979
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knowing of your great love yet unable to look at the clear flame...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: A Portrait of Grief and Pride | 5/3/1972 | See Source »

...early '30s he drifted into the theater, a diffident moth seeking the flame of dramatic imagination. He found it in the 19-year-old Orson Welles, a pillar of fire to make the physicists in the sands of Alamogordo blanch. Together they founded the Mercury Theatre, which in 1938 staged four brilliant hits in a single season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Voyager | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...Buchanan's two automatic five-inch guns, with a maximum range of twelve miles, is trained to starboard. A voice rasps over the ship's loudspeaker: "Stand by. Mount 52. Two salvos." Five seconds later, the gun shreds the night. A pale orange flame shoots from the muzzle, and a 70-lb. shell whistles through the air en route to a target more than three miles inland from the Vietnamese coastline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Sea War: Barrages and Boredom | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pyromanticism | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...trumpeted nine soaring high Cs, all in one aria, provoking the Met audience into a howling, stamping ova tion. But the high point of the evening for many buffs came at the end, when retired Soprano Ljuba Welitch. 58, her flame-red hair blazing, her gestures still full of the pantherish passion that made her Salome a legend two decades ago, strode onstage for a brief speaking role. Oldtimers responded with a tear ful hand-clapping tribute in memory of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dotty Daughter | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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