Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney, who made a mouse enter taining, last week made a mousetrap educational. To illustrate an atomic chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch...
...pair were part of a gang of 25 who snowballed firefighters at a recent blaze near the M.I.T. campus. To make matters worse, their snowballs knocked off a fire chief's hat and hit an aide...
...past quarter-century, Poet Robert Browning and Poetess Elizabeth Barrett have become almost as famed a pair of lovers to U.S. audiences as Romeo and Juliet. And Elizabeth's tyrannical father, who stood between them, has become as thoroughly hissed a villain as the contemporary theater has produced. The principal reason for the fame of all three is Rudolf Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Liberally sprinkling the dialogue with quotations from the lovers'letters and poems, Playwright Besier applied the golden formula, love triumphs over tyranny, and for a climax had his bedridden heroine...
...regarded in all sorts of ways, from a first-rate detective story on up. The same is true of Godot; familiarity yields ever-increasing insights. One sees that the four main roles represent humanity ("All mankind is us"). Beckett presents them, however, not as Romantic individualists, but as two pairs--each pair being, like the two sides of a coin, opposites but mutually inseparable (it corresponds to the dualistic concept of inyo that permeates so much of Oriental thinking). In one case: teacher and pupil, guardian and ward, rationalist and emotionalist, etc.; in the other: capitalist and laborer, upper class...
...play it reveals a stage bare of everything but a few shapes vaguely suggestive of rocks and something that resembles a tree. Soon two hobos named Estragon and Vladimir come onstage, and the audience learns that they are waiting for someone called Godot to meet them there. The pair talk for a while, and than they are joined by two other characters, a cruel slave-driver and the slave whom he leads around on the end of a rope. After some more conversation, Pozzo, the master, and Lucky, the slave leave. A boy comes to tell the hoboes that Godot...