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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Texas, where most folks try hard not to forget the region's colorful, gun-smoking past, anybody may own a pistol without a license (but it is illegal to tote it). All that the most conscientious pawnbroker will demand of a prospective gun-buyer is a "certificate of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Murdertown, U.S.A. | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Would he release the highly publicized Gaither report (TIME, Dec. 2) that warns of the perilous position of the U.S. in its arms race with Russia and advocates a stepped-up arms program and vast bomb shelter project? No, said the President, he would not. He needs the advice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Just Reasonable | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

In addition to providing fine flashes of humor and plenty of surefire scenes. Librettist Menotti seems intent on making the point that as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed; waiting and hoping are the whole of life. Composer Barber, 47, had to do a good deal of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barber at the Met | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Though makeshift and spotty, the play is not just one more movie-soppy, movie-safe bit of lonely hearts and flowers, or just one more cleverish game of theatrical double-dummy stage writing. It has its quite funny and its reasonably touching scenes, some nice dialogue, flashes of real theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

The celluloid rubble of Novelist Hayes's Hollywood ("to see or be seen ... to eat or be eaten") seems unreal. And his people, though carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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