Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wagnerians received their first big jolt at the end of Act I, when Isolde (Soprano Birgit Nilsson) and Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain...
Privacy was gone, but so was stagnation. Radcliffe, which had spent the last ten years settling smugly into a niche of excellence as a sacred barnacle on the good ship Harvard, experienced an unexpected jolt. Now, people were questioning all the privileges and restrictions the Radcliffe community had taken for granted. What was the point of a Harvard education for a girl? Should it prepare her for motherhood, graduate school or a career? How closely should Radcliffe follow the Harvard model? In what ways might the College exploit its unique situation? And, ultimately, what could and should a woman...
What in the world is going on? Millions wonder in rising alarm, then hear with horror that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, by fateful inadvertency, have ex ploded superbombs at almost exactly the same moment - one near the South Pole, one near the North Pole. The geostrophic jolt, statesmen grimly reveal, has knocked the earth 11° off its axis and, what is in finitely worse, has steeply deflected its orbit. In four months, scientists estimate, the earth will pass so close to the sun that the world will end in fire, and humanity will roast...
...lever. The hood of his seat closed over him, sealing him into an airtight, 700-lb. capsule. Doors opened in the top of the cockpit, and two small rockets fired, blasting Murray and his capsule 250 ft. into the wind. For an instant he felt a 15-G jolt, but the hard-fingered wind never touched his body. At 15,000 ft., a small parachute opened and checked the capsule's fall; then a bigger parachute lowered him and capsule to the earth, the impact softened by crushable plastic shock absorbers. His first words when the capsule opened...
...upper right hand corner of page one. In Vol. 1. No. 1, the story in this position is a rather untimely discussion of police scandals in American cities that begins, "It was just about two years ago, in January 1960, that Chicago, a city not easily shocked, got a jolt that shook it thoroughly." The story is actually interesting and informative, but it hardly rates being treated as the feature attraction of the issue. In general, the National Observer could do with a more thoughtful layout. Since it is a newspaper and not a magazine, it does not have...