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Word: endless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, her autobiography, revised seven times during the author's lifetime until the bridge between fact and fancy simply collapsed. Carry's lively imagination was impatient with the truth-which was crowded out of the book anyway by endless non-sequitur quotations from her favorite authors, Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady & the Hatchet | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Mega-Machine," Mumford explained in his deep, articulate rumble, "offers endless material abundance for all abundance beyond even the dreams of the Ford Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mumford Warns of 'Mega-Machine; Criticizes Chaos of Youth Revolt | 12/1/1966 | See Source »

...particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between San Juan and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Culture of Poverty | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...result, Manet's professional life often reads like an endless scandal. The all-too-earthy goddess Olympia, which he painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Fundamentalist | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...does notice that the peanuts are missing at the officers' bar, and he raises unprintable hell. World regularly mocks British dead-face understatement about things that count v. British redneck rage over trifles. Bayliss does a kind of tonsillectomy of his part. He wheezes, bleeps, snorts, and plays endless comic tunes on his catarrh. He is like an animated poster propagandizing the inanity, silliness and stupidity of the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Down with Blimpcompoops | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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