Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They bored a slanting shaft deep into their mountain (see diagram). Above the shaft they mounted a heliostat (a flat mirror). As the mirror turns to follow the sun across the sky, it reflects the sun's rays down the shaft where they are reflected back and focused by a concave mirror. Bounced back toward the top of the shaft, the light is intercepted at ground level by another mirror and angled into a vertical well. There the sun's image can be examined on a flat screen, photographed, or studied with a spectrograph...
Nixon may think he got the shaft, but Dan Drasin '65 got the king's elevator this week. Drasin filmed Sunday in Washington Square during the folksinging riot just before his freshman year; it went on to win international acclaim at festivals and in the film journals. At last it has come to the Square, but neither the Brattle, in its ads, nor Ivy Films, in its lavish spread in the HSA Calendar, bothered to mention Sunday. For the Brattle this amounts merely to bad business, but for Ivy Films it is an act of bad faith. Drasin...
...needless loss of one of the most profitable cash crops in history. Salable slaves were continually trying to starve themselves to death too. But for this at least, civilized man's ingenuity had a remedy-a caliperlike instrument called a speculum oris (i.e., mouth opener). Its pointed shaft was hammered between the teeth of the recalcitrant black, then its wings spread to pull open...
...Isolde (Soprano Birgit Nilsson) and Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain calls...
...fire reminds him of the painting In which a shaft of sun rests upon a blank of polished copper; In the mirror's ground the Greek bride floats, Dark in all that brightness, And in that mirror Warm...