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Word: complicatedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offenbach's brand of light opera is ever so much more frothy than its contemporary Anglo-Saxon counterpart, with little of the latter's pointed if slightly aging satire. It consists for the most part of many very agreeable musical pieces linked together by a singularly loose thread of plot...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Orpheus in Hades | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

For the British move, Ike found a U.S. precedent. "You will recall in 1953 the first thing that this new Administration undertook was a complete survey of our military establishment and our military needs, and it acquired . . . the term 'new look.' Well, it was merely an effort to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Defense of Britain | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

A Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket climbed last week to 126 miles above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Besides conventional instruments for upper-air research, it carried in its nose a precious but expendable pay load: the electronic guts of a satellite. In an aluminum can 10 in. long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Satellite Tests | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

All the characterizations are handled extremely well--easily identifiable types with enough individuality to be convincing. Cobb perhaps is a little too obvious about his character's psychological condition, especially when he destroys his son's photograph in a moment of aberration, but Begley and Warner are especially good. Fonda...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Twelve Angry Men | 4/17/1957 | See Source »

The Tutorial Bibliography is a more complicated problem. It has made tutorial into a kind of fifth course in which students prepare for Generals by reading a section from the bibliography not covered in a catalogue course. Moreover, the student soon learns that all his extracurricular reading should come from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform Wanted | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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