Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excited statement from a group of Anglican churchmen denouncing such "secret negotiations." In London, the Catholic Herald deplored the "rumor" that Anglicans "may be seeking spiritual reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. If the letters were in fact diplomatic feelers, said the Herald, they were "not regarded in that light by the Vatican...
There are two doors between his workroom and the light, airy, modern living room. "When both doors are closed, no one may enter," says Vera Stravinsky. "When only the workroom door itself is closed, I may enter, but only I." The room is soundproofed. Says Stravinsky: "I cannot work where I can be overheard...
...Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans and the land...
...telephone stands must be jammed together like jackstraws. The dance floor must be intimate enough to make people feel they are really rubbing elbows and posteriors with the great. To these rules, Hover adds a few of his own. Recently he has installed over the dance floor a new lighting fixture designed to enhance milady's makeup. As the evening (and milady's Pancake) begins to wear, the parabolic light slowly dims till by 2 a.m. faces can hardly be discerned...
...young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes ever appears on the scene...