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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...age of the ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain. Because of the curious liaison Dior has wrought between the shrewd operators of Seventh Avenue and the damask-hung salons off the Champs Elyseées, U.S. women may deplore or applaud the plump little man from Normandy, but they cannot ignore him. The woman has not yet been born who, shopping for a new dress, asks for "something just like what I have on"-and men would not like it if she did. Few women have the social assurance to trust their own taste completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...should have corresponded with that of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan, et al. Like James Joyce and the Dadaists ... I have always wanted to be worshiped ... I must live on-longer than anyone else has ever lived. I am the most serious man of our age." Not far from the locale of this British parlor farce, Wilson's estranged wife deplored Mr. Stewart's stern tactics though not his aims: "When Colin is threatened, he only becomes more obstinate. I have felt like horsewhipping Colin myself sometimes." The strife-torn saga was not concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...sympathetic" of the two. Explains John: "When the Kids set off 8,000 tons of TNT under Der Captain, they only want to singe him a little. When they're punished in an adult, unknowing way, they reciprocate. But most of the provocation comes from adults." In an age that regards delinquents as more sinned against than sinning, Dirks's mixed-up Kids have never been better understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...national scoring honors, and despite his size the pros are already dickering for his services. age of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Odd Assortment | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Adults. In the current rage, the old horse opera has been fitted with a new handle: the "adult Western." And there are signs that the old genre has come of age. Items: Hugh O'Brian, who plays Earp, and Jim Arness, star of CBS's highly rated Gunsmoke, have been named as Emmy candidates for "best actor in a continuing series" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High in the Saddle | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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