Word: mira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...models are just frosting on the foreign carmakers' cake. The older cars sell so well that almost every producer is ahead from 10% to 30% this year. With a new 350-acre plant at Mira-fiori, Italy's Fiat is making 1,400 cars daily, up about 40% from last year. In France, Simca alone expects to turn out 210,000 cars in 1958, v. 170,000 in 1957, while the industry as a whole will top the 1,000,000 mark for a 100% increase in the last four years. Biggest jump of all: West Germany, which...
...made from bits and pieces may be distant, but it is already possible to replace the head of an embryonic chicken. Last week Yale University told how Mira Pavlovic, 28, a visiting research associate from Yugoslavia, performs the graft, operating on eggs that have been incubated for 33 to 40 hours. At this point the embryo is 0.2 in. long, and the blood system is so primitive that the organism does not bleed...
...libretto, by Prokofiev and his wife, Poetess Mira Mendelsohn, arbitrarily hacked great chunks out of the Tolstoy epic without ever linking them in true dramatic tension. Tolstoy's own brilliant literary counterpoint-in which he switched from peace to war scenes and back-was abandoned. All the peace was concentrated in the first part, all the war in the second, so that many of the figures in Part I suddenly dropped out of sight. Moreover, the libretto was narrative rather than dramatic, required whole passages of flat prose to be set to music, with the result that long stretches...
...culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this hurricane is Author Markandaya's heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with the handsome blond Englishman. Mama quickly scotches that outing, and British officialdom does the rest...
Within the year, the newlyweds invite Mira for a visit to their big-city home. In due time she meets Richard again. With India's sun-scorched earth and evergreen-crowned peaks for a backdrop, their illicit love affair is a many-splendored dream. They wake up to the man-made India riven by hate. In a tragedy of errors, Kit and Premala are murdered by nationalist extremists, and as the episode ramifies, Mira and Richard find that not even their love can break through the sociocultural barrier...