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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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For all his clowning, Scheel (pronounced shale) is tough and talented. "I am not a special friend of pretension," he said at his swearing-in ceremony last week. Like Brandt, he is truly a self-made man. The son of a wheelwright from the knives-and-scissors town of Solingen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jester in Striped Pants | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Metaphysical Blackout. Beckett's friend and mentor, James Joyce, once said: "Here is life without God. Just look at it!" In a way, Beckett's entire work is an agonized sermon on that text. In his world, the machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prize: Kyrie Eleison Without God | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Eliott returned home to Chicago to run the family business; to maintain his status in the community, he married. It lasted five months. After the divorce he married again, this time for two years: "She began to notice that I didn't enjoy sex, and that finally broke it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Four Lives in the Gay World | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

"If Katie were a man, I would marry her and be faithful to her the rest of my life." So vows Rachel Porter, 21, who is slightly plump, wears her blonde hair in a pert pixy cut, and works as a secretary in a Manhattan publishing firm. Rachel has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Four Lives in the Gay World | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

What was it like to be gay? "There were peaks and valleys of despair," says Tom Kramer, 28, a tall New York City public relations man who was a practicing homosexual until 2½ years ago. "Throughout high school and college, I would try to put it out of my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Four Lives in the Gay World | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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