Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second to study how it can improve its design. Ohio's Mead Corp. photographs the flow of fibers in papermaking to keep a check on quality, and other rapid-fire cameras stand duty at the looms in textile mills to spot the reason for a thread break. General Dynamics located the cause of a hydrogen valve failure in the Centaur space vehicle by setting a Fairchild camera to watch it at simulated flight speeds...
...been since. "You have only to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself," Bach told his students of the organ, giving a rare expression to the credo of simplicity that makes his music now seem blindingly pure. Through his work there runs a thread of such subtlety and daring, such piety, passion and genius that the musical world stands before it-as Mendelssohn once did-in a "reverie of wonder." The final questions on the interpretation of such music, as Gould, for one, is quick to agree, are better addressed to clergymen than pianists...
...Mona who hits the skids. She soon turns up doing the tango in a purple brocade dress, and next time Stephen sees her she is an expectant mother whose life hangs on a delicate thread of Catholic dogma. To save Mona, doctors ask permission to perform a fetal craniotomy, crushing the infant's head. Fermoyle refuses, Mona dies in childbirth, and the baby grows up into a happy, well-adjusted niece, so that takes care of that...
Pennsylvania's narrow field may crimp the varsity's passing game, since outsiders, insiders, and defenders will have little room to roam. "We will really have to thread the needle," commented Munro...
...Show (CBS) is an awesome disappointment. Her voice is a scraping vestige of itself, and her producers have made her seem an interloper on her own set. More happily, The Danny Kaye Show (also CBS) has been a thorough delight and need only be maintained. There is no thematic thread-just Danny Kaye, pronouncing Los Angeles in approximate Castilian ("Loth Antheleth") or changing My Fair Lady lyrics into baseball songs like Why Can't a Woman Be More Like...