Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aviator William P. Odom set a new distance record for single-engined light airplanes when he flew a 185-h.p. Beechcraft 2,407 miles* from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. Said Odom, stepping out of the plane after his 22-hour flight: "I've never been so thirsty in my life. I guess it was looking at all that water...
...garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
Murch's paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had all the dim, cold calm of false dawn. They were done with dead-eye accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
...directing and here his fast tempo has been put to better use. Most of the action takes place in the Tower of London and a single set and part of the orchestra is used. The scenes flow rapidly one into the other by use of lights, rather than curtains and there is seldom a moment, without visual activity. When Richard is soliloquizing on his villainy, there is a red light, presumably from Hell, shining upon him. During the battle scene, which is done all in silhouette and with imaginary weapons, an off-stage drum beats. All of these things...
After spirited debates at several meetings last week, the American Association of Colleges voted to give a green light to an extensive program of scholarship aid as outlined in the report of President Truman's Commission on Higher Education. They added, though, that there must be no lowering of educational standards and no infringement on the independence of private institutions...