Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's it hanging on the shed...
...loose, freeing the 349-lb. instrument capsule for its descent to earth, and the newly installed gas jets immediately set it spinning at 60 r.p.m. The quick blast of a retrorocket slowed its speed of descent. As the Discoverer capsule knifed into earth's atmosphere, it stopped spinning, shed all useless encumbrances-its gas jet equipment, the retrorocket, and the remains of a protective nose cone-and pared itself down to a svelte 143 Ibs. At 50,000 ft. the capsule's parachute popped open, and it floated calmly down toward the Pacific, radios jabbering like magpies...
...hanging in the U.S., only three are authenticated beyond all reasonable doubt (see color). In 1948 Manhattan's Frick Collection bought The Education of the Virgin-a painting dominated not so much by the young Virgin or the brooding St. Anne as by the unearthly light shed by a candle that is partially shielded by the girl's translucent hand. In the Cleveland Museum's Repentant St. Peter, the spell is cast by a lantern that bathes St. Peter's ordeal in a glow of searing red that seems on the verge of bursting into flames...
Whatever else can be said about Soviet education, it serves the Communist purpose more efficiently each year. Last week Nicholas DeWitt, of Harvard's Russian Research Center, shed fresh light on a sweeping reform of the Soviet school system that is intended to put education unblinkingly at the service of the state. "The Russians were, are and will be training an army of scientists and technologists," wrote DeWitt in School and Society. "They want no generalists-only specialists...
...Heavies. Performed on a 160-ft. stage under an enormous shed, the Passion Play strikes many in its audience as deeply moving, but to even more it seems a cumbersome who-done-it that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression...