Word: thunderbolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough-minded as a Greek tragedian, Newby hits a poor anti-hero with every thunderbolt from Olympus. What keeps him from really being a literary sadist is the confidence he conveys to the reader that Townrow, like men generally, has what it takes for bare survival...
...following excerpts from "De Loon's Practical Guide to the Passing on of Knowledge," by the late Hadley Warner De Loon (1883-1968), Jane Thunderbolt Professor of Arts and Crafts, are here reprinted as a public service. We have long suspected the existence of such a document, but only recently came into its possession--after a fruitful journey through the De Loon family crypt. Not wishing to shake the Harvard community unduly, we propose to break the contents of this remarkable work over a series of installments, of which today's is merely the first...
...York Times. In it, the physicist boldly denounces major aspects of Soviet policy and practice, goes so far as to urge an East-West "convergence" to provide a safe and single world leadership. It is, as Library of Congress Kremlinologist Leon Herman said, "a thunderbolt"-not only for what it says but because of its origin in the very bosom of the Soviet elite...
After two uninterrupted hours of this, some members of the audience may have welcomed the concluding thunderbolt from Zeus that plunged Prometheus into the netherworld; yet most cheered and stomped for 20 minutes when Orff appeared for curtain calls. The reviews were more divided. Hans Stuckenschmidt, Germany's leading music critic, wrote that "the performance counts among the best that one can see and hear today in European theaters." But Der Spiegel scoffed that the opera sounded like "a prehistoric equinoctial celebration of a voodoo ritual...
Dramatic and dangerous as it was, the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo was only the latest and loudest thunderbolt from a long-gathering storm of North Korean belligerence. Under Premier Kim II Sung, a tough, Soviet-trained soldier, the North has become increasingly frustrated by its place in the Communist world and its poor showing visa-vis South Korea. Moved by the desire to bolster his regime internally and win some international notice and prestige -plus his oft-stated desire to distract the U.S. from its role in Viet Nam-Kim has deliberately launched his country on a high-risk...