Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER THE FALL. Arthur Miller returns to the stage after more than eight years of silence in a torrent of self-revelation. The Furies who pursue the playwright are chiefly his mother and Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. Miller's version of the truth of these relationships is harrowingly fascinating...
After the Fall. After more than eight years of silence, Arthur Miller returns to the stage and launches the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in a torrent of self-revelation. His new play is a memory book of betrayals, a soliloquy with his conscience, an exorcism of guilt, an intimate manual of bad marriages, a chronicle of the birth of a writer, a dirge for the death of love, and underlying all, a tormented but intellectualized quest for self-justification...
Heavy Demand. Such a story demanded prodigies of professional journalism. From both papers a torrent of newsmen poured out to reinforce the men already assigned to Kennedy's arrival. At the Times Herald, Managing Editor Hal Lewis threw out all of Page One, ordered a new lead and a new head-SECRET SERVICE CHECKS IN VAIN -for the security story; he called for a more appropriate ending on the prewritten story of the visit, which had closed on a happy note. The Times Herald's conditional front-page banner head, linked to Kennedy's upcoming Dallas speech...
Sudden Darkness. Householders in neighboring towns leaped from their beds fearing an earthquake as the torrent of water and debris thundered past. Then they noticed that the lights of Longarone had gone out. In just seven minutes, virtually everything and everybody in the chalet-bedecked villaggio had been swept away by water or entombed in mud. With pickaxes and shovels, soldiers dug fearfully into the muck, by week's end had unearthed 1,500 bodies. Of Longarone's peaceful populace of 3,500, the carabinieri feared that only a handful survived...
...torrent of Negro demands has caught many men by surprise-including the President of the U.S. and his brother, the Attorney General. The torrent has, indeed, forced them into a drastic revision of their civil rights policy...