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Word: danae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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John H. Updike '54, former president of the Lampoon, has won this year's Dana Reed Prize for the best writing in an undergraduate publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Updike Captures Dana Reed Prize For Best Writing | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

...judges for this year's Dana Reed prize were Jean Stafford, novelist, Louis Kronenberger, novelist and critic, and Edward Streeter, banker and author. The prize itself amounts to $100. It is the only award that is given specifically to encourage undergraduate writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Updike Captures Dana Reed Prize For Best Writing | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: Up In Arms | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

...house is an Oriental palace with all the Occidental conveniences, but the bride does not like the life in it. Her husband and his assistants work hard all week, and on weekends have wild parties and play polo on bicycles in the main hall. All. that is, except one (Dana Andrews), the second in command, who prefers to play sonatas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...relations between the main characters are finely graded, and call on the best powers of the actors to express. Dana Andrews responds with his strongest performance in several years. Peter Finch not only fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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