Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least at the Charles Playhouse they do. Director Michael Murray has taken this classic comedy with a moral bite and played it for broad laughter. Which it gets and deserves. But Murray and his actors (and for that matter, his designer, William Roberts) sometimes push too hard; the humor becomes heavy, and the moral sharpness disappears...
...stage can drop 28 ft. into the subterranean storage chambers and emerge with a teahouse, garden, bridge and cherry orchard all ready for Madame Butterfly's entrance. Meanwhile, the three wagons can be loaded with upcoming scenes and wait to glide into the center-stage slot at the push of a.button. For other effects, the backstage Merlins can conjure up storms and floods, encircle Brunnhilde in flame and smoke, or simply change night into day by unreeling one of two massive 110-ft. by 270-ft. cycloramas. For more subtle moods, there is a space-age lighting booth with...
...Stern. In schoolroom demonstrations, an electromagnetic force is produced by passing electric current through a wire or other conductor suspended in a magnetic field. The current generates a magnetic field around the wire that pushes against the field of the magnet. In an electric motor, current flowing through the armature reacts in the same way against a magnetic field generated by electromagnets. The resulting push, or torque, turns the rotor...
Professional or Political? Mainly to meet faculty objections, Penn President Gaylord P. Harnwell announced that he will abolish the institute, which had coordinated all defense contracts, although existing contracts will be completed. In the future, the university will push for the right to publish all contracted research and, under a faculty proposal that has administration backing, whenever agreement cannot be reached, Harnwell will seek the advice of an eight-man faculty advisory committee on whether to proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will...
...past. In that book, on evidence that would arch any cautious anthropologist's eyebrow, Ardrey proved to his own satisfaction that man is a born killer. He toyed with some other revolutionary evolutionary notions too, but he lacked either the time or the background to push them with suitable evangelical zeal. That required another book, and this...