Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand Harvard certainly doesn't fit the image of the Big Ten school--there are no pep rallies before big games or flash card sections in the stands. But on the other hand, Harvard is far from the image that most people attribute to it--that Harvard students are basically unconcerned with their teams and take a very blase attitude toward sports. The answer lies somewhere in between...
Hiroshima is almost totally rebuilt now, and many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
Think about this for a minute: exactly 30 years and two days ago people in Hiroshima, Japan, woke up in the morning and saw a huge silent brilliant flash of light in the sky that brought with it a moment later a great, deadly shock force. The flash and the shock came from a bomb, one that an American in a plane had dropped; there days later, 30 years ago tomorrow, another American plane dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki...
...boys themselves probably won't put in an appearance in the flash, though Pope says they've all been invited. And it probably would be a letdown anyway--they're not the same old boys any more. As Pope says, "it wouldn't be as good if they got back together again. They've all grown in different directions. It just wouldn't be natural...
JOHN WITHAM and Shells McCarthy, as the romantic leads, work well together. William often sounds more like an announcer than an actor, but every once in a while he exhibits a flash of comic timing. ("Is my face dirty, dear," Constance asks him prissily as she gets ready for her wedding night, "or is it just my imagination?" "Your face is clean," he says with a smirk, "but I don't know about your imagination.") McCarthy, as the arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult...