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Word: addictive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast and enjoyable hurdle sprawls between Cambridge and Princeton, N. J. it is a large city with a newly elected mayor tabbed "liapy," a brightly-litteland purchased from some Indiana who didn't own it, and an over-whelming number of pleasurable distractions. The voyaging pigskin addict must pass through that town twice: the voyaging bedonist may never cross the Hudson. It is for both types that the CRIMSON's presents its Hymarx edition of One and The New Yorker, unabashedly aware that the Campus of big city life may slun those used to nothing more confusing than Lloyd Jordan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Backdoor Censorship | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Editor Robert Brittain, a longtime Smart addict, does his best to destroy this theory by presenting a selection of Smart's poems, most of which Browning never read. His volume shows that A Song to David was not Smart's only masterpiece; but it also shows that the sufferings Smart experienced because of his fits of madness gave his best work a peculiar profundity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Prisoner Rescued | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...worry about your child becoming a TV addict. After all, TV "is a new toy, and its novelty will wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Doctor's Orders | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Last Date tells the sobering, to-the-point story of Nick, high-school athlete and hot-rod addict, and his pretty girl friend Jeanne, who take Nick's souped-up jalopy for a reckless joy ride between dances, end up in a head-on collision which kills Nick, permanently disfigures Jeanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Date | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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