Word: lights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongly in favor of having Mr. Fortas confirmed as Chief Justice last year. In the light of recent events, I hoped even more ardently that he would step down...
...order. Early that morning, summoned by a report that the student-union building was being looted, police moved in and arrested several before sniper fire from other campus buildings pinned them down. Then the Guard acted. Supported by tear gas delivered by helicopter and smoke spread by a light plane, 500 Guardsmen swept across the campus in a dawn assault, clearing the dormitories and rounding up more than 200 students. Neither the police nor the Guardsmen, one of whom was wounded in the action, made any further arrests. They did confiscate a number of weapons found in the dormitories. Among...
Ford's films of the 'thirties forcefully present the emotions of individuals. Lighting idealizes the actors' faces and bodies to yield the essence of a sentiment. Different kinds of shots (dynamic severely-lit low-angle, balanced light-flooded eye-level) are used moment by moment to change the film's emotional emphasis. As in Birth of a Nation, even single shots are given several emotional directions by the placement and movement of the several characters. The subject of this drama is individual sentiment; its type, melodrama, whether historical (Mary of Scotland), social (Tobacco Road), or familial (How Green). Society exists...
...first recipient of an eye transplant involving substantially more than the cornea, left Houston's Methodist Hospital and went home. Dr. Conard Moore had grafted the front part of a donor eye to the remainder of Madden's right eye. Although Madden cannot even distinguish light from dark through the transplant, still he credited Moore with "a miracle...
...between the author and the world." Nabokov's books are conceived like the chess problems that he has composed during the past half-century. He describes in an early novel the miraculous way in which a flat, abstract contrivance (in chess or art) can take on vitality and light: "Little by little, the pieces and squares began to come to life and exchange impressions. The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole . . . Every creator...