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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There is only one trend in the American theatre, and that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Eyewitness for Posterity | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

The hero of No Place to Run is a kind of composite of the Southern political rabble-rouser with glints of Bilbo and Talmadge, Huey Long and Orval Faubus. Sixtyish, red-gallus-snapping Gene Massie is as loyal as a barracuda, as lecherous as a fruit fly, and as fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shrunken-Head Faulkner | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

The tale has the aggravating quality of a dream, but there is no denying its hallucinatory vividness. It is like seeing a film spliced together from five different movies and provided with a narration from a sixth, for Desmond has the confident conviction of the reality of his fantasies possessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Singing Birds | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

The University sponsored the slalom this year, which was run on Hillman's Highway at Mt. Washington, N.H. In the individual standings, Brooks Dodge of Dartmouth took first place with a run of 37.4 seconds. Don Stephenson, captain of the Crimson ski team, came in second with a time of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Beat Dartmouth; Golfers Triumph | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

The varsity won the remaining singles with little trouble. Tim Gallwey beat Don Hubbard, 6-3, 6-2, Fred Vinton took Lee Sager, 6-1, 6-0, Jorge Lemann defeated Rush Yelverton, 6-2, 6-2, and Bill Wood blasted John Wood, 6-0, 6-0.

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Crimson Netmen Blank Army, 9-0 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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