Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Richard Wilbur's lithe translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch. The best thing about the play is Brian Bedford's smug Acaste...
...KNABEN WUNDERHORN, ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF, DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, GEORGE SZELL CONDUCTING THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Angel). Though not a happy composer, Mahler could be light-hearted when he turned to folk poetry. In these twelve songs-drawn from the German folk anthology The Youth's Magic Horn-he conjures up an impish world of humorous saints, sorrowful drummer boys, cuckoos and nightingales. As one would expect from such a line-up of talent, this version abounds with interpretive delights. It does not, however, outclass Angel's previous recording by Janet Baker, Geraint Evans and Conductor Wyn Morris with...
Peering into the night skies, astronomers find their view obscured by the ever-present veil of the earth's atmosphere. Swirling air currents blur the images of stars and planets. Scattered light and auroras in the atmosphere blot out faint stars. The thick blanket of air soaks up ultraviolet light and other radiation given off by distant stars, thus depriving scientists of valuable clues about the nature of the universe around them. Last week U.S. astronomers dramatically thrust their telescopes through the atmospheric veil and began to see the sky in a new light...
...next six months, OAO is scheduled to study more than 50,000 stars, most of them of the hot, young variety that emit 95% of their energy in heretofore unobservable ultraviolet light. From the ultraviolet TV pictures and data that the satellite transmits, scientists hope to learn more about the chemical composition of the stars, their temperatures, their rate of burning and their total energy emission. These characteristics in turn should help them understand how stars are born out of cosmic dust and gas, how heavy elements are formed in stars and how the universe itself evolved...
...characters" -- anonymous creatures. They are placed like a line-up of black sheep to carry us into the dream-vision of the book. We see them again and again -- hermetic figures, alone, hungry, against the austere backgrounds of the illustrations. They are composed in strong patterns of dark and light -- like the black and white judgements of the seeker-voice which moves through the poems demanding experience. The figures of the cover are aspects of this split soul -- of which part wants rest, and part wants "dancing, gin, and girls." But the real land met in either search is only...