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Word: clair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirror. Virginity finds a nice young boy and girl immobilized with modesty as they try to make love for the first time. "Tomorrow morning, maybe?" she asks shyly at the fade. "It's a shame to waste the room." Marriage (written and directed by René Clair) is a pert disquisition on honeymoon hysterics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Seven Ages of Woman | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

Soap-Bubble Systems. Since 1946, U.S. economics has undergone some pervasive changes. The spiritual parent of these transformations was Columbia University's Professor Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948), whose treatise, Business Cycles, is widely regarded as the most important of all U.S. contributions to economics. Mitchell was the "prophet of facts and figures." In his youth he studied economics and philosophy, and he noticed in both a common tendency to "spin speculations by the yard," build up "grand systems like soap bubbles." Mitchell insisted that what economics needed was more facts. To that end he founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Pragmatic Professor | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Robert M. O'Clair, Senior Tutor of Kirkland House, also thought that the most active seminar members are Honors students. "People who do well in one thing, do well in another," he declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses May Alter Policy On Seminars | 1/17/1961 | See Source »

...been named yet to teach the department's course on the 19th century novel. Robert M. O'Clair '49, lecturer on English, formerly gave the course, but he is leaving the University at the end of this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buckley to Present Victorian Literature | 1/16/1961 | See Source »

...LOVE GAME. Philippe de Broca's bedspring farce, the first comedy turned up by the new wave of French cinéastes, bounces along like the movies did when Rene Clair first made them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF I960 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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