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Word: damnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a state of affairs is exceedingly unfortunate, for Miss Rutherford, a delectable mountain of a woman, is a supreme comic actress. This truth my now come to be appreciated, for in Murder (She Said)--damned awkward name for a film, really--She has a movie all to herself. Nominally...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Murder (She Said) | 3/6/1962 | See Source »

This is not to imply that American anthropology has lacked scholarship. What must be stressed as well, however, is its tendency to invoke the opposite myths: the noble savage and his gemeinschaft society, unfettered by civilized restraint in a rural paradise with a stable moral order. Such was the picture...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Lewis' Novel Begins Where Anthropology Leaves Off | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

The awareness of the real issue, Larteguy says in effect, is gained on the battle-field (or in the prison camp). For his characters, the indoctrination and intellectual forced-feeding to which their Viet captors subject them is kin of ordeal by fire, which burns away all illusions, and leaves...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: What the French Army Needs: A Fighting Man's Ideology | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

"How Damn Good?" In recent weeks, Shoup has made headline news by his insistence to the Senate subcommittee on military "muzzling" that his marines do not need instruction about the theory and practice of Communism in order to fight Communists. All a marine needs to know about an enemy, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Uncle Dave | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Jokes in Crisis. The two men became stanch allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man for the Job | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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