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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The locale for the story was certainly a plausible one: Los Angeles, that well-known suburb of Hollywood. The leading character was Thomas T. Noguchi, 42, who graduated in 1951 from Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, migrated to California, and was licensed to practice there in 1955. For seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coroners: Examining the Examiner | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

"I never knew but one artist who could resist the temptation to see things as they ought to be, rather than as they are, and that's Tom Eakins." Walt Whit man was one of the few people who had anything good to say about the cold-eyed and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Portraiture with a Scalpel | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

More and more people have stopped trying to figure out today's erratic securities markets and have turned their investments over to professional managers of money. No institution manages more "O.P.M.," or Other People's Money, than Manhattan's 116-year-old United States Trust Co., one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: When a Fellow Needs a Fiduciary | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Detection Pushed Too Far | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Many of the performances last night came within hailing distance of fully exploiting the resources this highly schematic text provides. Paul Schmidt as Job is the closest to being at ease with his part. His job is subdued, as incorporeal and introspective as any Job could be. Something must be...

Author: By Charles F. Sable, AT THE AGASSIZ, AUGUST 14-16, 19-23 | Title: Job | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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