Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menzel presented a brief talk about the eclipse until the plane broke though into sunlight. When the moon started the fifty-six-second period of totality, the airliner became a scene of controlled confusion. Nearly everyone on the plane hurriedly snapped pictures, since the next eclipse in this area will not come for 300 years...
...Every scene between Helen and Annie is electric in its excitement; for ten minutes in the second act, the audience sits fascinated as Annie teaches Helen to fold her napkin and to eat with a spoon; not a word is spoken. The performances of Miss Bancroft and Miss Duke so stand out that they obscure several other important assets. First, Gibson's play is astoundingly free of the oversentimentality that could so easily bog down an enterprise of this kind. Second, the rest of the cast, particularly Patricia Neal as Helen's mother and James Congdon as her half-brother...
Disarmament is the most important problem waiting to be solved on the international scene, and steps toward it can be taken without first eliminating political crises like Berlin. It is all very well to attempt to cut off possible conflict by removing causes of disagreement, but it is equally useful to prevent war by removing its instruments from the hands of potential adversaries. The possible sincerity of Khrushchev's proposals makes the forthcoming negotiation a precious opportunity to achieve a meaningful international settlement in the essential disarmament field...
...American left London in triumph, but there were more laurels to win. The next stop was Dublin's famed Santry Stadium, scene of Herb Elliott's 3:54.5 mile in 1958, and it was there that Dyke Benjamin established himself as perhaps the greatest runner in Harvard history and a candidate for the 1960 Olympic team...
Throw your geisha girl in the rickshaw and make the scene over to Room 129, 2 Divinity Ave. where Professor Hibet discusses a definitely "in" topic this year--History of Japanese Literature (Japanese...