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Word: epitaphs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon, by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, and one sleeper, The Octoroon, a reasonably lively, reasonably funny-by-now melodrama of pre-Civil War days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...Write My Epitaph (Columbia). The heroine (Shelley Winters) is on heroin. "Louie, please!" she gasps. "I need a fix! Ya gotta gimme a fix!" In this picture, unhappily, the story as well as the heroine needs a shot in the arm. Based on Novelist Willard Motley's sequel to Knock on Any Door (TIME, March 14, 1949), which made a substantial score as a Hollywood thriller, Epitaph is just a scummy rescrape of the sidewalks of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...have it within them to know what a future-directed society feels like, for science itself, in its human aspect, is just that. That is why I want some scientists mixed up in our affairs. It would be bitter if, when this storm of history is over, the best epitaph that anyone could write of us was only that: they were 'the wisest men who had not the gift of foresight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bring on the Scientists | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...afford to penalize our good papers any more," said a Hearst executive last week. "With modern newspaper economics, you just can't tap a good paper to carry a dog." With this unsentimental epitaph, the 14-paper Hearst chain lopped off another link: the faltering Detroit Times, which Hearst sold to its afternoon rival, the independent Detroit News, for $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hearst Formula | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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