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...absorbing. The cast, in its superbly graphic work, leaves nothing to be imagined or desired. One cannot guess from a work as distinctly person al as Creeps what David Freeman's precise future as a dramatist will be. But in this stubbornly resilient play, he holds up a mirror to the grievously wounded lot of some of our fellow humans and asks us to have the moral courage to face them as they...
Freshmen: Organizational meeting for the Freshman darkroom at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 10, in the Mirror room of the Union...
Friends say that the child took it well. "You could tell by the Senator's reaction when it was over-he was a mirror of how the boy reacted," said one Kennedy intimate. "He was grim but you could tell things had gone about as well as something like that...
Clearly, Archimedes would have chosen some more practical alternative. Knowing the fundamental laws of optics, he would have realized that he could create the effect of a large mirror with hundreds of smaller reflectors. Because the ancient Greeks did not have the capability of mass-producing glass mirrors, Sakkas decided that the "burning glass" of legend was probably highly polished metal-most likely, the shields of Syracuse's soldiers. "Archimedes could have just lined the men up on the walls and had them focus the sun's rays on the Roman ships, so that the Romans never knew...
Flaming Rowboat. To test his assumptions, Sakkas ordered the construction of dozens of flat mirrors that were covered with a thin reflecting sheet of polished copper. Each was about 5 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, small enough to be handled by one person. The Greek navy provided the men, the site and the target: a wooden rowboat with a tar-coated, plywood silhouette of a Roman galley attached to one side. When all was ready, Sakkas' burning-glass experiment took place early this month at the Skaramanga naval base outside Athens. After lining up 70 mirror-bearing sailors...