Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much harassed Faculty is not the only fly in this scholastic ointment. In this case the Harvard student is crying wolf at his own shadow. Dashing into the reading rooms at noon on Saturday only to find that several hundred other students have the same idea, he naturally feels that it is a hopeless job and happily trots off to a football game. During the week the rush hours are in the afternoon and once again students are staggered and stymied by the sight of bulging reading rooms. The limited space and the scarcity of books present a sufficiently serious...
...campaigning for remains a mystery. Weighed down by incessant squabbles among their own ranks, the Democrats are as yet unable to present a united front. The Southern bloc resists P.A.C. infiltration. And Truman's storm buddies Snyder, Allen, and Clifford find embarrassment in open discussions. The upshot of this shadow-boxing by the two parties is, as Mr. Schlesinger says, a "no-man's land where in the flickering half-light the donkey is indistinguishable from the elephant...
Through fellow Glaswegian Paul Vincent Carroll (Shadow & Substance) she finally landed a job as an understudy in The Divorce of Lady X. The producer of her next show, East Lynn, proposed after three days' acquaintance, but she decided to wait "a decent interval," got around to marrying him three weeks later. Only this year she joined the talented little group which calls itself The Company of Four...
...like American music. But the ancient Oriental melodies which they beat from bronze gongs and piped from bamboo flutes won his Occidental ear. His Balinese memoirs, published this week (4 House in Bali, John Day, Asia Press; $4), tinkle with a swirling eddy of music for. religious rites, shadow plays and joyful cremations...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...