Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane comes down toward Hellenikon Airport, between the scintillating blue sea and the burning bare stones of Mt. Hymettus. Perfectly clear sky, a flood of light. Has anything changed in Greece...
...audience at Thursday night's opening seemed a little uncomfortable in Odets's presence, but quickly came to accept him, probably as a spiritual ancestor to such modern plays as Dear Me, the Sky is Falling and I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Lines like "I got a yen for her, and I don't mean a Chinese coin" were laughed at agreeably, and the play's genuinely tense moments drew genuinely tense reactions. All in all, it was hard to believe Awake and Sing could have meant something more, or even something different, to its '30's audiences...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...visitor to Venus were insulated and refrigerated against the 536° F. surface temperature, he might survive long enough to see both a sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted...
...this week, McCurdy has been working on the team's already sky-high morale, getting them as emotionally up as possible. Yesterday he handed out red and white beanies to the team, and he has kept their Dillon Field House locker oom festooned with inspiring posters...