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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Days of Freud | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Look Back in Anger has hardly raised the curtain on the frowsiest-looking attic in years than it catapults upon the audience the most blisteringly vituperative character. While his better-born young wife (Mary Ure) bends over an ironing board and his working-class friend (Alan Bates) sprawls over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Naturally, any organization which wants to preserve its single-sex character will be free to do so. The Radcliffe Student Council will probably continue to accept financial responsibility for strictly Radcliffe clubs, but would not be expected to give funds to joint organizations.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urge to Merge | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

The new musical comedy Rumple is not really so absurd as its title would suggest. That title, it might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Rumple | 10/9/1957 | See Source »

Functional planning and flexibility of design are the proudest claims of modern architecture. The era when a Matthews or Weld Hall might rise like some disoriented Phoenix from the bosom of Harvard Yard is supposedly gone forever. Then, in the midst of enlightenment, a great seven-story cliche makes its...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Bleak House | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

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