Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans gives you the feeling of having the whole United States balancing on your fulcrum. I have a very strong sense of the Mississippi River being the trunk of the America tree. When the country falls over, New Orleans will drift out into the Gulf as the stump...
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. By rebalancing the Pacific campaign on the fulcrum of the Battle of Midway, a noted teller of sea stories (Night to Remember, Day of Infamy) shows why Japan lost World...
...center's prime mover-opened 2½ years ago. Last week two handsome new structures were opened: the 2,100-seat Howard Ahmanson Theater for drama and musicals and the 750-seat Mark Taper Forum for chamber music and experimental plays. Together they give Los Angeles a visual fulcrum, not to mention one of the most versatile performing-arts centers in the country...
...Absolute Freedom." Neither Thomson nor Astor will completely control the eleven-man board, which will hire and fire editors. It will consist of the editor in chief, the general manager, two Astor men, three Thomson men, and-at the fulcrum-four "independent national figures" to be approved by both partners. Though Thomson will not be on the board, his son, Kenneth, 43, will be vice chairman. Said Thomson, who, like the U.S.'s Sam Newhouse, reads balance sheets much more avidly than editorial pages: "All my life, I have believed in the independence of editors, and the new editor...
...directed by Frank Hauser, the production's most consistence and all-of-a-piece performance is Josef Sommer's as Malvolio, who with the Clown constitute the fulcrum upon which the play seesawa. This portrayal is well-spoken and properly starchy, comical without intending to be, always controlled and never overdone. Sommer's handling of the scene where he reads the forged letter, which he reads the forged letter, which he amusingly first employs as a fan, works admirably except that, when he quotes, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve," he ought to spin around in ridiculous compliance...