Word: darknesse
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There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week...
Heston, whose movie career has consisted mostly of impersonating Great Heroes of History (Moses, Michelangelo, Ben-Hur), plays Gordon with a swaggering virility complicated by moments of fierce introspection. At times, though, his crisp British officer's manner lapses into a fair imitation of Jack Benny, as when he...
Police Chief Richard Wagner ordered a force of 400 cops into the area. They were outnumbered and all but engulfed. Dozens of fires flickered eerily over the sweating mob. Soon parts of Hough were plunged into darkness as electric power lines and street lights were shorted by flames. Negro snipers...
"From this far away," Pollack mused, "it's easy to be ingenious." But there is no real basis for believing the darkness on Mars is vegetation. Sagan and Pollack suggest instead that in the spring, some dust is blown off the continents, sharpening the contrast between the dark high-lands...
In the late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve...