Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viking, freeing the mechanical arm that it had jammed and enabling the lander to begin its historic life-seeking experiments. Some 19 minutes later, as telemetry confirming that the arm was no longer jammed appeared on the console screens at JPL, scientists and engineers broke into cheers. Said Meteorologist Seymour Hess: "Happiness is a functioning instrument in a spacecraft...
There was nothing routine about the weather report issued last week by Viking Meteorologist Seymour Hess. It was the first ever from the planet Mars...
Love's Power. Lynn Seymour dances the role of the vivacious Natal ia, languishing in the midst of her family through the pastel days of summer. Her irrepressible son Kolia - danced with gymnastic virtuosity by Wayne Sleep - bounces his ball and rockets up in corkscrew jumps. With the entrance of Kolia's tutor Beliaev (Anthony Dowell), the sky outside darkens. Ominous chords sound in the orchestra and the curtains flutter - all of which seems to signify more than just a passing storm. Immediately Mama is smitten, as is Vera, her young ward, portrayed by Denise Nunn, whom Ashton...
There are no heroes or villains in A Month in the Country, only human beings submitting ruefully to love's power. Seymour, an inspired actress, almost dances words as well as feelings. Ashton is one of ballet's supreme storytell ers. His pas de deux resemble poems. Dowell dances a sonnet with Natalia, a schoolboy's idyl with Vera, a naughty couplet or two with a coquettish maid. The clear dance designs, all curves and spirals, are infused with his classic sensibility. Let us hope for many another Ashton delight...
That notion comes out of a survey of 3,500 college teachers by two political scientists, Stanford's Seymour Martin Lipset and the University of Connecticut's Everett C. Ladd Jr. After asking a series of questions about issues and candidates, they conclude that the more conservative faculty members choose U.S. cars (with General Motors autos favored by the most conservative of the conservative). Liberals have a greater tendency to buy foreign models...