Word: aurora
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Judging from the poetic language of the pamphlet, one might even surmise that the explosion is quite beautiful. Immediately following the detonation, a fireball forms--a "large, swiftly expanding sphere of hot gases, producing brilliant light and intense heat...." Something like a display of aurora borealis...
...city stood as a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, it was Detroit. It was not pretty. It was, in fact, a combination of the grey and the garish: its downtown area was a warren of dingy, twisting streets; the used-car lots along Livernois Avenue raised an aurora of neon. But Detroit cared less about how it looked than about what it did-and it did plenty. In two world wars, it served as an arsenal of democracy. In the auto boom after World War II. Detroit put the U.S. on wheels as it had never been before. Prosperity...
...Moscow. He let it be known that the score would deal with the October Revolution and that it was "dedicated to the memory of Lenin." The music is divided into four parts: revolutionary Petrograd, Razliv (the place where Lenin went into hiding to avoid arrest by the provisional government), Aurora (after the cruiser that fired on the Winter Palace), and the finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works in its sharply staccato rhythms and in the superb ingenuity of some of its string sequences...
...slow tempi. Star of the evening was Inna Zubkovskaya, who put on such a virtuoso display that the audience scarcely noticed that the company omitted the thirty-two fouettés that are a feature of the third act in most performances. With Zubkovskaya. Irina Kolpakova, who danced Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, and Danseur Noble Vladilen Semenov, the company proved that it has lead dancers who can hold their own with any now on the stage...
...prize went to Albert W. Alschuler '62, of Kirkland House and Aurora, Ill., and Laurence H. Tribe '62, of Leverett House and San Francisco, Calif...