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...speaks of big city towers in which life is lived in compartments and cubicles. It speaks of the century's increasingly complex machines that no one man can control. It speaks of the swift ascents and descents not only in a competitive business existence but in an ever-fluid society. It speaks of man's dreaded loss of identity, of a desperate need to make contact with his fellow man. with the world and with whatever may be beyond the world. Above all, it speaks of God grown silent...
...quite appealing construction. Two 17th century "ayres" by John Hilton and two 16th century chansons by Claude Le Jeune were sung delicately, but the chorus's diction was not always good. In a more lyrical vein, two songs of Brahms and one of Schumann were wonderfully rich and fluid, the latter ending softly with well-controlled dynamics...
Morris used Boylston's shallow stage to perfection. He kept the actors moving in a fluid and carefully planned ballet. Every time a step was taken, an arm raised, an eyebrow lifted, one caught a glimpse of the puppeteer behind the scenes. The balance between the medieval and the modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even...
...glass womb" is made from two glass slides, one with a scarcely visible depression containing a ripe ovum. The slides are sealed together and attached to a heater that maintains a constant temperature of 97.7° F. Fluid containing male sperm is then dripped into a tiny fissure in the incubator slide and drawn into the "love chamber" by capillary action. Once fertilization occurs, the embryo is kept alive with regular feedings of oxygenated amniotic fluid, drawn from a pregnant woman. With "cold light" and highly sensitive film, color and black and white movies are made of the process...
...York-born Texas banker and philanthropist who started in banking on the ground floor (as a sweeper), became president of the South's biggest bank (Dallas' Republic National) at 37, and was one of the first to recognize that below-ground oil was an asset fluid enough to lend vast sums on, thereby freeing other funds for exploration and production; of infectious hepatitis; in Dallas...