Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only as a superbly vivid chronicle of its last years, from just before World War I, when dwarfs still sold whips for naughty children in the streets, to the outbreak of World War II, when its destroyed people stared into its shattered ruins as if into Abaddon, the bottomless pit of hell...
...Grapefruit League, something the lordly Yanks have often considered beneath their dignity. "I don't want the people in New York reading about losses," he said. He ordered extra bunting practice for Yankee pitchers, extra running for the hitters, even took a turn in the sliding pit himself. After the Yanks barely edged Washington 4-3 last week on homers by Mantle and Catcher Elston Howard, Keane sounded mad enough to quit again. "We made at least four mistakes," he complained. The Yanks promptly blasted the Baltimore Orioles 10-2, and bookmakers made them 2-1 favorites...
McCurdy isn't smiling anymore. High jumper Chris Pardee, IC4A titlist last year and a sure thing to take at least second place and four points this time, sprained his ankle Wednesday during some shenanigans around the pole vault pit. He has been on crutches ever since and won't be able to jump in New York tonight unless God intervenes on behalf of his alma mater...
...singing of the chorus was prerecorded on tape and played by Nono from a console in the orchestra pit. To open the second act he played a mixture of electronic music and voices shouting "the absurdities of life," alternately ricocheting the sounds through eight speakers ringing the auditorium. In the final minutes, Nono's tape machine broke down, and he had to pull the tape through by hand. At performance's end he stood knee-deep in tangled tape like a partially unraveled mummy...
Console in the Pit. For one scene there was a nightmarish montage of "scenes of injustice"-a Negro lynching, street riots, the desolation of Hiroshima, decaying bodies stacked in graves -flashed on dozens of various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...