Word: moon
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sets seemed useful for a director, providing adequate entrances and varied playing areas. To the eye they were charming. The ruins of a chapel for the second act came, with no detail changed, from the imagination of some great Romantic poet. DeShong's first act sun surpassed the moon that followed it, but both looked implausibly delightful, stuck up against Loeb's giant sweeping cyclorama. Stephen L. Tucker lit the show competently, although there appeared to be a few miscues in the execution of his plot...
...week Richter offered programs including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, playing each one with the uncanny air of direct communication that he conveys better than any other pianist alive. Under Richter's hands, even Debussy's much-abused Clair de Lune looked like a new moon. Wrote an all-but-wordless critic, the New York Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison: "Uncanny. It has to be heard to be believed...
...system to detect clandestine atom bomb tests must consider tests in space. A nuclear burst in a vacuum does not form a bright fireball; it gives off very little visible light and even if it were as near as the moon, its flash might be too feeble to attract unalerted attention. Sponsors of such a test would know where and when to look for it, and they would have instruments ready, to assess the results. A sneak test of this sort would be difficult and expensive, but not impossible...
...political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced the kind of "hysteria" in which he got caught, Susskind explained later). Now and again Susskind was flip, as when he delivered the now-famous line, "You are baying at the moon," and Old Moon-Shooter Khrushchev gave him a naughty-boy dressing down, beginning by asking Susskind's age (39) and suggesting he had much to learn...
...things. The waves of red light moved exactly in step; other light is helter-skelter. The waves kept to the same razor-edged frequency; other light is a mixture of frequencies. They formed a slender pencil beam that hardly spread out at all. If they had marched to the moon-240,000 miles-they would have covered less than one twenty-fifth of its face...