Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across the map of Europe and at times stain the background with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that continues to ring long after the smoke of the battles has disappeared...
...real reason for the disintegration that sets in after Borodino is that history is being made too fast. Jumping from the battlefield to Andrei's death to Natasha's marriage with Pierre, the play loses its sense of drama and becomes a mere chronicle of events. Once more the audience is left wondering with Pierre "What does this all mean?" By the end of War and Peace, despite the valiant struggle of the director and cast, only the historian knows for sure...
...draw rising sophomores to Radcliffe. But these new building efforts, to cost about half a million dollars, stand in the shadow of the $30 million fundraising drive under way for the new Soldier's Field athletic complex. It is unclear whether the Observatory Hill athletic complex, which would sit mere yards away from the Quad Houses, will ever be built, No formal fundraising efforts for the complex have begun. Fox said he thought "the bulk of our energies have to be devoted toward the Quad for these years," but he added that "at this time the [Observatory Hill] athletic complex...
...land in one of the world's finest cities." At the White House and at luncheons with House and Senate foreign relations committees, Callaghan pressed hard for the Concorde's admission. Aides said he was "throwing all his prestige" behind the jet for "national dignity" rather than mere profit...
...Wisconsin last week-points up a worrisome energy problem: nuclear power, once regarded as the ultimate energy source, faces a more troubled future today than it did when the first experimental reactor was switched on in 1951. Only 63 nuclear-power plants are operating, and they account for a mere 2.9% of all U.S. energy production. Only seven atomic-power plants were licensed in 1976, and only three reactors were ordered, compared with...