Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deadweight tonnage, the standard U.S. yardstick for merchant ships, is the number of long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35 cu. ft. weighs one long ton) a ship displaces when loaded: gross registered tonnage, usually used to measure passenger liners, is a nautical monstrosity, arrived at by computing the total enclosed space on the ship in cubic feet and dividing by 100 to get the tonnage. One deadweight ton equals...
Ballet as a medium of expression often retreats into its limitations, emphasizing the standard movements to a point where the dance is no longer creative. This week at the Boston Summer Theatre dance breaks through its restricting elements, adopts a contemporary aspect, and reveals itself as an abstract language that can be continuously built upon and expanded for all to enjoy...
...impressive as the second, since it included two very traditional and flowery numbers. Pas des Deesses was choreographed by Robert Joffrey, a young and talented dance creator who in this instance failed to get his message across. The ballet could have been very funny, since Joffrey took the standard set-up of one male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently meant to lampoon it. But somehow the number, danced...
...eighteen years apart. In the first act, an unwanted infant girl is left on the doorstep of a convent of Dominican nuns, and the sisters decide to raise the child. In the second, the girl, now eighteen years old, is leaving the convent to get married. In terms of standard theatrical material, that's all there...
...Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that he died. But what was he doing for 969 years? What a story, and all the reporters missed...