Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...witnessing their death. Nowhere in the play is death regarded as something terrible; we are not sad when Cleopatra takes her life, but rather rejoice in this final triumph she wreaks over Octavius. Both the lovers evince a death-wish; and we can even say that Antony and Cleopatra set up a menage a trois with Death as the third party...
During the past season Hunter set University records in both the 100 and 50-yard freestyle events, and the American Inter-Collegiate record, 48.6 sec. for 100 yards. Only Farrell and Steve Clark, another swimmer whom Hunter beat in the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials, have ever swum the event faster...
...minutes, includes everything important in Lawrence's 500-page novel. The most serious objection to the film is that it is inconclusive. But so is the novel: Lawrence chose to shut off his narrative after Mrs. Morel dies, but before Paul learns whether he has really been set free. If the ending lacks force, it is because it owes more to life than...
...Thirteen. Stop-loss orders have increased 25% in the past five weeks, Specialist John Coleman estimates, and have nearly doubled in some of the glamour stocks. The result: whenever the price dips, the stop-loss orders set off in a chain, and the stock plummets. Standard Kollsman stock was caught this way recently: the exchange canceled all Kollsman stop-loss orders on the books, has yet to restore them...
...answers to the far-out problems of space travel, radiation, communications, etc. It has contracts for such theoretical tasks as simulating a hydrogen bomb blast in outer space, and figuring out a defense against missiles systems to be used ten or 20 years from now. Tech Ops also set up a computer system in Washington by which hypothetical wars can be fought and generals trained to fight them...