Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flow of Elizabethan iambs. But Shakespearean effects can also be heightened by outdoor production. During one festival performance of Macbeth, deep grey thunderheads compiled themselves overhead as Birnam wood moved to high Dunsinane hill; the branches of the plane trees around and above the stage began to sway and whip; and when Macbeth finally faced Macduff on the ramparts, it was a battle fought in lightning and horizontal rain...
Near Milk Street in Boston, a fruit peddler keeps his little radio nestled among the purple plums, and startled passers-by always pause to stare at the singing fruit. Small boys on bicycles churn along the roads with radios topped with long whip antennas (they used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy...
...livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes in Latin America...
...giving land stations their already known positions. So far, it has not told any ships where they are on the ocean, but only because no ship at sea has the proper receiving equipment. Probably the first to get such equipment will be the nuclear submarines. When they poke a whip antenna above the surface to listen to Transit they will be able to tell where they are within 600 ft. A navigator who shoots the sun or stars with a sextant in good weather does an excellent job if he gets a fix that is accurate within...
...what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces of wood slapped together) and the sound of a whinnying horse (a trumpet with valves half closed...