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Word: famed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH federal office often brings fame to a man and, once he returns to private life, fortune as well. The successful businessman or professional entering Government service, however, may draw an official salary that is far less than the sum he is accustomed to paying in taxes. That is particularly true for many of Richard Nixon's Cabinet appointees, an uncommonly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The New Administration: The High Cost of Serving the Country | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...decadence is already setting in with proposed trips to the mock world of TV (The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann), public relations (The Image Men by J. B. Priestley and The Fame Game by Rona Jaffe), not to mention high fashion (The Collection by Paul Montana) and publishing itself (The Center of the Action by Jerome Weid-man). Probably in this category, too, belongs Henry Sutton's The Voyeur, which he says is not about Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year of the Novel | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...topped by two performers: Bill Sikes' companion, a mangy, miserable mongrel, is the least appealing, most memorable dog since the Hound of the Baskervilles. And Jack Wild, 15, as The Artful Dodger, has polished gravel for a voice, a Toby jug for a head, and the suggestion of fame for a future. As well might be. The last boy to play the Dodger onscreen was a cockney-of-the-walk by the name of Anthony Newley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Vice into Romance | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7-8:30 p.m.). "Pinocchio." TV adaptation of the children's story, starring Peter Noone as Pinocchio and Burl Ives as Gepetto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others, who do not know that there is a Harvard spirit of less fame but no less power. Spirit counts, but who can say, "Here, is a true fighting spirit; there, is none?" In the end it is a question of faith, and we place ours in Harvard as Yale men place theirs in Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

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