Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage their story. Pirandello's craft reaches its height in the second act, where he switches with startling case between the horror of the character's fictional world and the cast's farcically "real" existence. Compared with the intensity and immediacy of the characters' experience, the cast seems hopelessly pale and lifeless. It becomes questionable which are the actors and which are the people; the audience, certainly, isn't very sure...
...exams, followed by eight half-hour orals. Joined in common cause, teachers and students sweat out the results as the outsiders compile a single grade for each victim. "Most students who go on to graduate school," says one who did, "are quite prepared to say that Ph.D. examinations are pale shadows compared to that terrible fortnight at Swarthmore...
...residents of Munich, their city is not just Bavaria's capital and Germany's third largest city (after Berlin and Hamburg). It is Elysium on the Isar River - a steep-roofed, cobblestoned corner of heaven awash with foamy Doppelbier and festooned in Weisswurstle, the pale, succulent sausage that Münchners munch by the mile...
...that thunders with Wagner and bubbles with Bach. It is an art center with a proud history of avant-garde innovation. It is a sports center, boasting 75 lakes and forests within 30 miles of the city, and on a clear day the ski slopes of the Alps loom pale blue just 30 miles to the south, over the twin onion domes of the Frauenkirche...
...encountering in the lobby a life-size plaster cast of one of the Met's curators, Henry Geldzahler, made by Sculptor George Segal. For the Sculls, the plastered Henry (top picture, opposite page) has become a household pet. Scull likes to feel Henry's pulse. "How pale you look," he murmurs. Scull's three boys chat with Henry and use him as a talisman of good luck for exams at school...