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...ever been two of them), the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again thundered from a giant pipe organ, and a 25-minute demonstration for Lyndon began. It had more noise (klaxons, foghorns, etc.) and color (yellow balloons, tiny parachutes with American flags, sunflower posters for Kansas, gold-foil sunbursts for California and real corn for Iowa) than most such orgies, but those outside the hall saw very little...
...Dumb Show (for which I have never understood the need anyhow, for the same thing is immediately run through again viva voce), together with Fortinbras, Cornelius and Voltimand. While Fortinbras' absence does not seriously affect the main line of the plot, it does--since he is a foil to Hamlet--mar the architectonic design of the whole. The cuts have led to a bit of tinkering with the lines...
...masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother cutting cake for her child. At 42, he painted his expatriate cousins, the Ralph Curtises, in their Venetian palace; the painting opens volumes of casual space that would appall a European painter, such as Degas or Vuillard, used to more rigidly interlocked...
...modern micromodules, tiny gadgets that electronic engineers believe will soon replace most of the tangled guts of familiar apparatus. Least radical of the miniature gadgets are the "thin-film circuits." In the Philco version they are glass or ceramic sheets a few hundredths of an inch thick, covered with foil-thin layers of tantalum, chromium and gold. On top of the gold is a photosensitive material that becomes insoluble when exposed to light. The diagram of a desired circuit is printed by strong light on the photosensitive surface. Then the unexposed parts are dissolved, and the bare gold and chromium...
...weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., such tempering paid off. In the biggest, most proficient championships ever, Princeton's aggressive, three-man team beat 37 challengers to take the national collegiate fencing title away from Columbia. Princeton's team captain, National Foil Champion Bill Hicks, was a nine-letter man in three sports in high school, turned down an offer from baseball's St. Louis Cardinals to go on to college. By meet's end, Fencing Mentor Lucia's C.C.N.Y. team was down in 15th place, but Lucia himself-former U.S. team coach for the world...