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Word: assayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self-indulgent romp. And as, amid shenanigans, there comes a sudden stab to the heart or a surface shot that plumbs the depths, it is perhaps easy to make too much of it, to find its anarchic flings an assay of an ill-governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than a philosopher and more than a buffoon, Behan is chiefly an insatiable human being. He is no one's cup of tea who recoils from finding it sloshed into a saucer, no one's humorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Oct. 3, 1960 | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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