Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...
Said the architects' most eloquent spokesman: "The world man has constructed is without sincerity, without scale, without cleanliness-narrow in space, without light and cowardly in color...
...contemporaries that they named Toynbee Hall, first of London's East End social settlements, in his honor. Toynbee's father was a social worker. Toynbee's mother was one of the first British women to receive a college degree.* The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training at Balliol, the most intellectual of Oxford's colleges...
...Cliffhangers. A Study of History is dominated by an image of genius. The view is of the chasm of precipitous time. On its sheer rock walls, as the eye of the spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden...
...please the children, who in return pay them no attention. The young argue with their elders, and the old will do anything not to seem disagreeable or responsible. . . . The citizens . . . get hot and angry at the least sign that they are not completely free. In the end they make light of the very laws themselves, so as to have no master whatsoever over them...