Word: icarus
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...plot of Escapade is a whips about a Pacifist whose three sons flee boarding school, steal a plane, and fly to Geneva with an adolescents' peace petition. The play proves above all that children must be seen if the audience is going to hear abut them all evening. Icarus, the eldest son, is constantly discussed but is never on the stage. By description, he seems so colorful that it is curious for playwright Roger MacDougall to waste time with the boy's parents...
...Jorge Carrera Andrada, an Ecuadorian Romantic: "This is the epoch of Icarus' fall, the epoch of burned wings; the poet has become a simple son of the earthly city." (Most of the poets present looked fairly earthly: no-hairs far outnumbered longhairs, and there were only two beards among the 200 bards...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...
...soon be moving at more than 1,500 m.p.h. At such high speed, say aeronautical engineers, friction between air and airplane will build a wall of heat-a "thermal barrier"-that will grow worse as planes fly faster. Their metal may soften like the wax in the wings of Icarus when he flew too near...
...Serge Lifar's 1935 ballet Icarus had a 20-piece rhythm accompaniment but no music...