Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago-by the management-consultant firm of McKinsey & Co. Because rocketing costs -most notably, sharply increased salary scales-have not been met by a similar gain in income, the orchestras' combined annual operating deficit rose from $2.9 million in 1964 to $5.7 million in 1968. The loss will soar to $8,000,000 by the 1971-72 season unless drastic steps are taken...
...SCANT decade ago, man was making his first tentative probes into near space. Now, his eye fixed on the moon, that cold and lifeless globe with its borrowed light, he was poised to soar beyond earth's atmosphere, beyond the 40,000-mile-deep magnetosphere and into a vast and trackless void. The moon flight was man's first great extraterrestrial venture...
...glistening clear fiberglass half-box forms, whose intentionally sloppy casting endows them with a bubbly effervescence. Charles Ross's Plexiglas prisms are filled with mineral oil, so that museumgoers see other museumgoers distorted through them, edged in rainbow spectra. Even marble seems to soar, at least in Minoru Niizuma's vertical marble column entitled Windy Wind...
...knowledge of the men strapped down inside the huge projectile -but the drama has become familiar from so many past launchings. The voyage of Apollo 8 was an event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space age, man stood on the very threshold of exploration of the solar system...
Unfortunately, Miss Vance's direction of the play does not soar into orbit. Perhaps the shift in sheer playing space from the postage-stamp stage of the old Alley Theater was intimidating. A risky lark tends to become a sobersided responsibility when culture receives the imprimatur of opulence. In this production, everything that was raging and revolutionary in Brecht has been quietly domesticated. The central confrontation of the play, the direct clash between the authority of divine revelation and the authority of scientific observation, is muted...