Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election time last June. Canada was in a mess. The country's stock markets plunged downward in Wall Street's wake; the once proud Canadian dollar fell to 92½ U.S. cents, and Canada's foreign exchange holdings fell nearly 50% to a scary low of $1.1 billion. Six days after the election, in which the Conservatives remained in power, but as a minority government. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suddenly put on the country's most stringent austerity since 1947. Canadian Historian Bruce Hutchison mourned that Canada was "brought to the rim of ruin . . . and became...
...melodramatic naivete of an early silent film, but the stage skills of the cast speak a universal language. Masked and bearded for their roles, the actors show their youth only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates...
...points when he dances his soundless ballets. He is a theatrical master of total illusion. When he climbs an imaginary ladder, the rungs creak; when he leans against a nonexistent bar, the bar leans back with wooden stubbornness; when his outthrust palms slide feverishly along a make-believe wall, the air turns brick-solid...
Jimson then organizes a community mural of the Last Judgment on the wall of a condemned chapel, and himself demolishes it with a bulldozer to spare the wreckers the ignominy, as he explains it, of "destroying a national monument." In the end, he cuts his houseboat adrift, and idles down the Thames dreaming of something even more spectacular perhaps on the side of a battleship...
...powerful array of backs when he what? opened drills in early September. The 1962 Harvard experience seemed to settle an old football argument: Is a good line or a fine backfield more important to the success of a football team? Operating without the protection of a dependable forward wall during the first part of the season, Harvard's backs looked rather ordinary. When the line had begun to respond to the coaching efforts of Yovicsin, Jim Lents, Jim Feula, and Paul Mckee, the backfield was able to do what the sportswriters said it could...