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Word: scrims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a millennium away from 1968, when the season celebrating the Saviour's birth is a time of commercial convulsion. Even many of those yearning for piety find Jesus elusive, a shadowy problematical name in history rather than a symbol of ultimate reassurance. Seen through the scrim of contemporary anxiety and unbelief, everything about the Bach-family Christmas seems to be a quaint anomaly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Composer for All Seasons (But Especially for Christmas) | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...outset, Androcles' name in Greek-alphabet capitals hovers over the stage. A yellow scrim hangs in front, with sunflowers traced on it. As Tharon Musser's lighting changes, suggestions of a lion's head appear; and shortly some slinky jazz with a perky clarinet over a tonic-dominant ostinato ushers in the Lion (Ted Graeber) with a lioness (Jane Farnol). The two animals perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Androcles' Rounds Out Stratford Season | 7/16/1968 | See Source »

Available next week throughout the U.S. for the easily disposed of price of $1 will be Scott Paper Co.'s easily disposable paper dress. Made of a flexible triple-ply, fire-resistant paper reinforced with rayon scrim, the dress is a sleeveless shift with two pockets, comes in four sizes and a choice of design-gay bandanna print or eye-arresting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Paper Capers | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Last night the team held its first scrim mage. But it was only a half-field practice, since they had to set up nets on the Solders Field pitcher's mound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Has 13 Lettermen But Is Hurt by Delay of Practice | 4/1/1965 | See Source »

Since the theater's arena stage has no orchestra pit, Conductor Thomas Nee had to direct his 30 musicians behind a scrim curtain at the rear of the set. He followed the action over stereophonic earphones, delivered his cues to a closed-circuit TV camera that the cast monitored on two concealed screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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