Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes. Thus the surface of the moon appeared to the space dreamers of Franz Joseph Haydn's day, and last week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original third act was lost, was recovered by U.S. Musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon...
...Revelle suspects that the trenches may be part of the mechanism by which continents grow. The first step, he thinks, is for a slow current in the earth's plastic mantle to start flowing horizontally and then curve downward (see diagram). Where it makes the dive, it drags down a strip of the crust, forming a V-bottomed trench which after many millions of years fills with sediment. Eventually the downward current in the mantle stops flowing. Since the mantle rock at its sides is heavier, it moves in, forcing upward the dragged-down crust and the sediments...
Only a small part of the ocean bed is yet known in any detail. Recent surveys have shown that large areas of the bottom are covered thickly with rounded, blackish nodules that have grown as crusts around some nucleus, sometimes a shark's tooth. They are mostly iron and manganese oxides, but they often contain considerable amounts of copper, nickel and cobalt. "The amounts are absolutely staggering," says Dr. Henry Menard of Scripps. One 10-million-sq.-mi. area in the Pacific, he estimates, has nodules worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile...
...entirely Producer Goldwyn's. The original Broadway musical ('TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort of amiable condescension toward the "darkies" that used to pass for progressiveness in the South. What really matters in the show is George Gershwin's music; some of it, particularly the recitative, is banal...
...with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...