Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political shenanigans, the government had whooped up the annual celebration of the reconquest of Buenos Aires from the British in 1806. There were parades and solemn ceremonies in the Plaza de Mayo, and symbolic torches were rushed to every corner of the country. But there were no torches to light the last hours of the parliamentary system that generations of Argentines had struggled to maintain...
Flags & Firsts. One evening after dark, a Californian (assisted by an outlander from the state of Washington) shinnied over the fence into damp and deserted Wembley Stadium. The only light they could see was the Olympic flame flickering in its great urn. They slipped past the guards, climbed up onto the roof and hauled down the large five-ringed Olympic flag, which waved above the royal box. Into a bag it went. Following it went some smaller flags-the British, Dutch, Panamanian and Italian. Then they escaped...
...moments, when the sun or street light hits it right, New York City has a unique beauty which U.S. painters have tried time & again to catch. Last week, as a part of New York's Golden Anniversary celebration as a five-borough city, Manhattan galleries were exhibiting portraits of the city by some of its admirers...
...Busy." When an airplane designer looks at this engine, his gloating eyes light up. He knows that it develops some 5,000 horsepower-even more when moving through the air at high speed. But it weighs less than half as much as an equivalent piston engine, and is much more simple to build...
...Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...