Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current Falstaff, Jerome Kilty, is new to the Festival stage this season. But he is no newcomer to the role. Though still a relatively young man, he has been playing Falstaff off and on for close to twenty years. Even as a Harvard sophomore (see photo) he was highly acclaimed for his portrayal, and W.H. Auden was not the only one to rate it the finest he had even seen...
...ground to a stop six hours later with a blown head gasket. With Fords running one-two-three and no more challengers in sight, Team Manager Carroll Shelby ordered a slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory all the more impressive, he decided to stage a deliberate dead heat between the leading Mark Us-No. 1, driven by Miles and Denis Hulme, and No. 2, piloted by New Zealanders Bruce McClaren and Chris Amon. Headlights blazing, the two Fords coasted across the finish line side by side at 15 m.p.h...
...ship by ejecting gas through nozzles, for instance, is called "nozzle gas ejection ship attitude control." The longest nominal compound discovered by McNeill appeared in the Congressional Record, and sounded as if it had been translated literally from the German: "liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen rocket powered single stage to orbit reversible boost system...
...screen or stage, Author Albee's catalogue of the games people play tends to become repetitive, larded with Freudian case history, and building to a fairly preposterous climax. When George and Martha agree to lay to rest the ghost of their nonexistent teen-age son, there is solemn talk about the sterility of illusions, but the real issue appears to be a playwright's need to make his verbal fireworks add up to something...
...Emperor down to size," as Mosley suggests, MacArthur was implementing a plan that had been drawn up long before Japan toppled. The U.S. needed the Emperor to save the Japanese nation from disintegration. But only by destroying the myths of royal invincibility and divinity could the victors set the stage for political democracy in Japan. The plan succeeded admirably-and it is the reason Hirohito is the happy and admired monarch he is today...