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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jolly's Progress (by Lonnie Coleman) concerns a wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Undramatic though the play is, the final trouble lies less with subject matter than with form. Had Silent Night been not a full play but a longish one-acter, it might have had a special appeal. It could, just long and lyrically enough, have chronicled a meeting and sustained a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Mark Lass, plump, solemn and 61, claimed he had been a Red general. His brother Boris, 64, he said, was a concert violinist and had been the Soviet Union's top art official in the early 19205. They left Russia for Japan in 1926, taking with them 200 "masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rich No More | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The vote will probably be no-as it has always been in such cases-but industry was gambling that there would be enough yeses to embarrass McDonald. In any case, union leaders are not bound by the vote; they can call another strike even if workers want to accept the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: These Mulish Men | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

From these undisputed facts, Dulles proceeded to the hotly disputed question of comparative growth rates. Since 1950, he said, Russia's G.N.P. has been expanding at a rate of 7% a year-"at least twice" the rate of about 3% for the U.S. in the past six or seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIAN v. U.S. GROWTH: The Latest International Numbers Game | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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