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Word: aimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence of the present generation is the relative calm that immediately preceded it and the laxity, or cowardice, with which the faculty and administrators respond to it. Compared to the rebels of the thirties, who set out to reform society with a plan, the rebels of the sixties are aimless hedonists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decline of Learning | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

...Jewish and author of the prize-winning Masturbation Now in the book) becomes a quack surgeon of Italian descent in the movie. The marvelous, obscene Aunt Livia character is transformed into a grotesque nymphomaniac, about as funny as a scrawl on a public bathroom wall. Candy herself becomes an aimless slut--hardly what the original work intended...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Candy | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

There was a time when Ponelle seemed to be more concerned with chi chi than with character. Scion of a fam ily that owns some of the best vineyards in Beaujolais, he pursued an aimless study of existentialism, political science and art history at the Sorbonne. Turning to art, Ponelle was fascinated by early 16th century French and Dutch mannerists. This influence was quite pronounced in his first theatrical sets for a 1954 Berlin production of Luigi Nono's ballet, The Red Coat. Composer Hans Werner Henze, a boyhood friend, later asked Ponelle to design a production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Character, with Chi-chi | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Star--Despite wonderful music, ranging from Kurt Weill to Cole Porter, an aimless, fruitless movie. The theatrical history, however, is fun, and Julie Andrews and Daniel Massey are likewise as Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward. At the GARY, 131 Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Star--Despite wonderful music, ranging from Kurt Weill to Cole Porter, an aimless, fruitless movie. The theatrical history, however, is fun, and Julie Andrews and Daniel Massey are likewise as Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward. At the GARY, 131 Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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