Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...
...about a second-rate theatrical company whose indolent rehearsal of a lousy play is suddenly and spookily interrupted by six intense black-clad figures, claiming to be characters from an unfinished "tragedy" and demanding that the company dramatize their miserable history--this story gives scope for a series of light satirical sketches of theatrical types and for another series of heavy dramatic performances, and it practically demands a considerable degree of virtuosity in a director...
Better Limelights. Colored floodlights (in red, blue, green, yellow, blue-white, pink) have been developed by General Electric, are weatherproof, give off more light, operate on less power (100 watts v. 150 in older lamps). Price...
...Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience...
...ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full"'). In short, the book-a sure bestseller-is about on a par with the five-and-ten plaster statues of the saints and prettily painted picture postcards of Christ...