Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Machine. "This voyage is the culmination of my life's work," proclaimed the 57-year-old Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960) as he set out last February from Monaco. For the opener of his series, which will run to at least twelve specials over a five-year span, his converted minesweeper Calypso pursued sharks in the waters of the Middle East. For half a year, Cousteau's crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing...
...half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room is now crumbling in decay. Once rich and powerful, his kingdom is now poor, famished and depopulated. His erstwhile magnificent army...
There is, of course, no reason why a program that a student wants to follow and that has academic merit should be disallowed simply because no department is particularly entranced by it. Students who are sufficiently convinced that their interests span the offerings of a number of departments should in fact be encouraged to draw up their own program of study. The student-authored programs might well be more coherent and better integrated than a program of courses selected simply to fulfill the requirements of a department...
Once settled in carpeted luxury on the extrawide, foam-cushioned seats, spectators were treated to views unencumbered by pillars, thanks to the structure's 407-ft., rafter-free span that is suspended by taut cables resembling the spokes of a bicycle wheel. With the Forum's time already booked for 200 days in 1968, Cooke could finally relax, proclaim his new sports palace "a timeless place, something a man can be proud...
...dour chronicle of the Compson family. But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is clearly yes. Behind the novel's secular fa?ade, he argues, lies a poetic expression of what theology calls kairos-the divine gift of time span in which man exists on earth...