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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving from Creation to the Last Judgment, the Raising of Lazarus to the Crucifixion, the Wakefield Plays open a window on a long-gone world when, in the words of the Mermaid's Founder-Director Bernard Miles, "life was a unity-swear words, sexual references, prayer and devotion unashamedly mixed...
Spelunkers of the writer's mind will find no dark pockets in Jean Kerr's memories of her girlhood. Norman Rockwell might have painted it, showing an oversize white clapboard house with a wide front porch, through the window an upright piano, an upright father singing in his rich baritone, an energetic mother doing the spring cleaning for the second time that day, and beside the house a tall elm tree with a tall young girl high in its branches eating an apple and reading a book...
...Walker's voice came calmly, almost in a bemused tone, over the radio: "Good heavens, we're shaking to pieces here." The plane was racked by vibrations, the most violent he had ever felt. "I and the airplane window were going in opposite directions." Then, as mysteriously as they had started, the vibrations stopped, and Joe Walker headed down to a 180-knot landing in the tan clay of Rogers Dry Lake. Came a voice over the radio: "Wonderful show, Joe." And another: "Whoopee!" Said Walker, as he climbed out the cockpit: "You feel like...
...Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with the F.L.N...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded...