Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Two comedies, As You Like It and Love's Labour's Lost, provide the light moments, while Richard II deals with weightier affairs of men and state. A dash of Shaw is offered in Androcles and the Lion. Through Sept...
Still, as Lyndon Johnson put it, man must try to "shape his destiny in the nuclear age," and the President solemnly pledged all U.S. resources to help the world move "into the light of sanity and security...
...Power & Potential of Pure Light...
There was no word to describe the new device when scientists first learned how to build it. But there seemed to be no limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...
...Friends, as were William Penn and Thomas Paine-were the first of the guerrillas. In the latter part of the 18th century, these Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right of the common man. In the 19th century, Lynd says, the doctrine was assimilated into the American main stream: "Property was no longer the ark of the covenant. It was recognized to be not a natural right but a social convention...