Word: flashings
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...moment, it looked as if the cold war had reached flash point in Burundi. The tiny African nation had been the biggest base for Red Chinese subversion on the continent. Fortnight ago, when moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe was installed to check Peking's rising influence, nobody doubted that the Chinese would respond. Then the Premier was gunned down on the steps of a Bujumbura hospital. But the man who was arrested was a local African employed as a stenotypist in the U.S. embassy. Immediately, the noisy cry echoed through Africa: "Imperialist plot...
...widening range of frequencies. Tones that came through to him so weakly that once they stirred no response at all now turn into recognizable sounds. Soon the child is fitted with a microphone, and when he makes a noise with his own vocal cords, he sees a light flash on and the teacher signals receipt of this message with her hand...
Eugene Carson Blake's 1960 proposal to merge four major Protestant churches into one seemed a lightning flash illuminating a hopeful abstraction, an ex citing new vision. Now the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church sees his idea as more possible than before, more urgent than ever, and beset by subtle dangers. Last Sunday, shortly after returning from a meeting of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Nigeria, he went to San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, where he had first called for a united church "truly catholic, truly reformed, truly evangelical," and spoke...
...production progressed, the skill of the actors and director grew more consummate--and more distracting. Gostures were added to the speeches, and movement subtly wended its way onto the stage until I began to follow hands and not words. I saw beautiful red lights flash on the back-drop as miserable Oedipus stumbled wretchedly inside to his wife's death at the end, but I did not hear (Oedipus') screaming speech. I am sure it was perfectly spoken, but I wish I hadn't been so fascinated by the blood...
...what we need--not now anyway. The Brattle could come up with a totally mindless festival without half trying. Cowboy films say. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Shane, Broken Arrow, the Virginian. A flash of gunfire and the mind is soothed. Or navy films, consciousness corroded by a film of brine. The Caine Mutiny, Run Silent, Run Deep, even Captain Horatio Hornblower...