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Word: browsings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE beginning of justice," U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren once wrote, "is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Last week Chief Justice Warren's court generalized its way into two specific surprises that rocked the FBI and its chief, J. Edgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Hunched over his dusty, paper-piled desk, with his big ears and jet-black bushy brows, Nuri looks like a grizzled old bear. He is ponderous of movement, quickly bored, and constitutionally unwilling to make a show of interest for politeness' sake. He dismisses an aide's idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Pasha | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

The effort to capture this quality of inner release in stone permeates Indian sculpture, whether in the trancelike images of Buddha that reached their peak in the 4th-to-5th centuries, or later in the undulating figures that encrust the great Hindu temple buildings of the null centuries. One such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SCULPTURE OF INDIA | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Of course, I'm easily amused, but the Gilbert and Sullivan Player's second production could easily amuse anyone. After all, the only thing that Gilbert and Sullivan really requires is a good chorus and plenty of vigor. Iolanthe has both, and more. The show has a few good voices...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Iolanthe | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

The Whims of Cupid was already over and the second presentation Somnambulist was in process. The dancers who swept before the footlights with such grace plunged towards us with great sighs, wiping their brows as they came off.

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Raisins in the Danish or A Night in the Ballet | 10/9/1956 | See Source »

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