Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antarctica's vast (5,300,000 sq. mi.) expanse, comprising 93% of the world's ice, offers an unsurpassed observatory for study of the oceans, which would rise 200 ft. if, as some predict, the icecap should melt in some far distant age. Scientists have already learned a great deal about its climate and its far-reaching effect on the world's weather. Oceanographers are studying Antarctica's seas, which are among the world's most fertile areas...
...were an adaptation of West Side Story. This year, in a production that has become a Roman sellout, he has excised most of the melancholia from the melancholy Dane, replacing it with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn't this flesh, this heavy carcass of meat, dissolve?" The play is done in Italian in an almost corner-of-the-mouth modern idiom, with the gravediggers speaking in hoodsy Neapolitan accents and Hamlet's pentametric arias flatted with words like "procrastination...
...thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations. Blacktop highways often absorb enough heat to melt their way downhill...
...girl who effects this contrast is a British actress with dark red hair, a smile that could win a war or at least make one worth losing, and "a light in her eye"-as one London critic rhapsodized-"which would melt the heart of a gun dog." At the moment, she is starring in the London production of Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary, and, as another critic summarized the reaction of all, "the night belongs to Miss Smith-laconic and nervous, superb in comedy, touching in pathos, a gem of an actress, a dish...
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading...