Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elegance and Oriental richness. The costumes were frothy if not very original. And the children, as mice, candy canes, or the tiny, pink ginger cooky (who emerged from under the huge skirts of Mother Ginger and almost didn't find her way back) were enough to spark a Christmas glow in even the coldest, neon-lit heart...
...natural place to glow was the House of Commons, where, as his biographer observes, Churchill's bulldozing ascent soon earned him respect and enmity in equal measure: "When he was a backbencher, Churchill had spoken as if he were an Under-Secretary; as Under-Secretary, as if a member of the Cabinet; and when he reached the Cabinet, he was apt to speak as if he were Prime Minister." It is only fair to add that as Prime Minister, he was likely to speak as if he were...
Restoring the Glow. The time for sober second thoughts came only as Chicagoans realized that while their city was rapidly growing, the number of its theaters and concert stages was actually shrinking. Sparking a drive that began in 1960 to rehabilitate the Auditorium was Mrs. John V. Spachner, a tenacious and seasoned Chicago fund raiser. Undaunted by an earlier estimate that had pegged the cost of restoration at $4,000,000, Bea Spachner enlisted the aid of an enthusiastic Louis Sullivan fan, Architect Harry Weese, 52. Weese resurveyed the building, reported that it could be brought back to mint condition...
...names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked on the Auditorium as an 18-year-old apprentice...
...called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers, Eric Rawson and Larry Heilos. They showed him how laser beams, controlled by motorized projectors, could produce the desired effect of hard-edge geometric light lines against the wall (standard incandescent bulbs would diffuse into a more abstract-expressionist glow...