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...save the world from Fascism. The impulse to act was not mistaken. But the action we took may not have been of the right kind. It was for the most part the half-and-half action of people divided between their artistic and public conscience, and unable to fuse...
...brig Nancy was smuggling West Indian gunpowder to Philadelphia when she was trapped by British warships. Under cover of fog, her crew beached her off Cape May, New Jersey, and unloaded 265 barrels of powder-leaving behind just enough for a large explosion. They then lit a long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come on shore with two gold-laced...
...leaving some members of the jury visibly startled. The new material included notes in Patty's handwriting, so stipulated by Bailey, that seemed to be cryptic references to making a time bomb: the "toaster wire: 10 sec; timing device w/fuse; clock (set to minutes) or cigarette (wire in fuse)." There were also more explicit and alarming comments: "place for 'switch' car to be (just in case); lookout signal; meet to talk about shooting...
Nikolais's choreography becomes more involved at times when he de-emphasizes the light and slide show. (Some of his dances fuse light and movement at their most essential level; others use costume and light traditionally, as secondary arts.) Somniloquy, an all-dance duet, turns Suzanne McDermott and Gerald Otte into fast-moving comic caricatures, Nikolais's way of treating a potentially sexual situation. He has the couple move with such highly-charged energy that they forget their partner is of the opposite sex. At these times Nikolais emphasizes traces of movement rather than the precise shapes of movements...
Leslie E. Thomas, manager of utilities, said yesterday that a B&G electrician's report blames the power failure on "high-spirited" students who were allegedly playing with the fuse...