Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gongs, the clash of cymbals, the rataplan of exploding firecrackers. Demonstrators marched 110 abreast in a swirl of red banners and colored scarves. The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped lanterns dangled from the gates of the Imperial City...
...clear Red sky a Soviet translator named Victor Louis dropped a casual line to Musicomedy Authors Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to inform them that an unauthorized version of their long-running My Fair Lady, its book translated by Louis, will be staged in two Russian cities next season. Despite the fact that they stand to collect no royalties on the Russian production, Louis brassily requested Lerner and Loewe to forward a complete orchestral score for the hit. So incensed that they could have danced all night with rage, the pair promptly appealed to the State Department, the Soviet...
...Destruction. To Author Gray, war is at once an ecstasy and an agony, and he examines both with a philosopher's brooding eye. War, he believes, has enduring appeals: "Some scenes of battle, much like storms over the ocean or sunsets on the desert or the night sky seen through a telescope, are able to overawe the single individual and hold him in a spell." There is also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed by a fury...
...Russians do it, the evil bird-sorcerer is killed by the Prince, and the lovers walk happily into a rose-colored sky; the fight in which the Prince tears off one of his enemy's wings is a bit of Socialist realism totally out of place in the classical ballet, but it makes for some immensely exciting dance. The effect of these and other changes was to make the Russian Swan Lake a looser, more romantic interpretation than Western observers are accustomed to seeing. On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom...
...about cosmic rays back in the prewar days when they were considered as wildly abstruse and impractical as a study of the mating habits of sea horses or the inner structure of a grasshopper's brain. But today he can tip back his head and look at the sky. Beyond its outermost blue are the world-encompassing belts of fierce radiation that bear his name. No human name has ever been given to a more majestic feature of the planet Earth...