Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE...
Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
...Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving. He is only 35, and his rocketlike rise has come with such rapidity that it seemed that each new stage ignited before the previous one had burned out. No sooner had Director Rorimer read Hoving's graduate paper on Rome's Farnese gallery in 1959 than he hired him as a curatorial assistant to the Metropolitan. In a triumph of scholarship and taste, he personally deduced the origin of the rare Bury Saint Edmunds cross (TIME, June 19, 1964), purchased by the Met for $500,000. The young art historian rose to become curator...
...lacked for his companionship. He frequently took the children picnicking, boating, swimming, climbing. Says Wells, 58, who now lives in rural Oakley, 40 miles southwest of London: "When I realized that she had this gift, I felt that she needed some kind of antidote to the artificiality of the stage. I remember when she was singing at the Winter Garden in Bournemouth, I went down with John to visit her. It was a blowy, gusty sort of day, and when I asked them what they wanted to do, they chose the beach. It was deserted; we improvised a shelter, then...
There are no such guarantees for CB arms, Meselson maintains. Although they are not cheap now, they will be once the pioneering stage is completed. The result, he suggests, could be disastrous. "Today, a madman in America might climb to the top of a tower for a shooting spree, or put a bomb in an airplane. But if CB weaponry were conventional, maniacs would constitute an enormous threat. An insane man could wipe out New York City...