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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet at the core of each of MacLennan's people is a fear that perhaps he abuses his freedom--a suspicion that the Old Guard's standards of morality are rules that one must follow to assure the happy life. And we are left with a sense that no one...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Montreal, the Present, the Depression; A City and its People Come to Life | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

The obvious answer would be to erect barriers around the canals, but barriers low enough to avoid spoiling the view would be too low to keep cars out. Last week the Royal Dutch Association for Assistance to Drowning Persons had a new idea: it began giving free lessons in how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Wait for the Bubble | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

A modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

To escape sure death as witnesses to the slaughter, Curtis and Lemmon leap into garter belts and padded bras, join an all-female orchestra heading for Florida. The band's singer: Actress Monroe. For the rest of the movie, Curtis and Lemmon are rarely out of their dresses,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

British Novelist Eric Linklater (Juan in America, Laxdale Hall) wore the kilt of the gallant Black Watch in World War I and has laughed in the face of reality ever since. His new novel, My Fathers and I, is an escape into the past. It is told by a degenerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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