Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unveiled by his widow last week on the pink sandstone west wall of the new Coventry Cathedral.* Commissioned in 1957 by the Cathedral Reconstruction Committee, the monumental four-ton sculpture of the cathedral's patron Saint Michael Triumphing Over the Devil was completed 18 months later and partially cast in bronze by the time Epstein died last summer. Before the assembled crowd, the Bishop of Coventry, the Rt. Rev. Cuthbert Bardsley, called it "an unforgettable picture of the cost of warfare. The work is a challenge to recognize the encounter in life between the forces of good and evil...
...achieve neo-Elizabethan intimacy), see a forgettable version of Two Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist mecca, the festival has nonetheless lured...
Though nothing very earth-shaking came out of either of the major speeches, they proved that each candidate-presumptive had a campaign battle-plan up his sleeve before a single convention delegate had yet cast his vote...
AMERICAN MOTORS will bring out a Rambler with an engine having an aluminum block for its bestselling model, the 108-in. Rambler. The new block is 50% lighter than a conventional cast-iron block, and by cutting down weight is expected to improve gas mileage. American Motors also has a new muffler, which it says will not have to be replaced, as in most present cars. Coated with ceramic, it should last for 90,000 miles of driving, says American Motors...
This week Mrs. Birnbaum was happily back at home in East Meadow, ready to cast a knowing eye at what her husband had written about the suburban wife...