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Word: fancifulism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of Hawaii's richest acreage has for decades belonged to a few families and trusts, and most homes and office buildings are built on leaseholds. Quinn came up with a plan that he called the "Second Mahele,"*an imaginative land-reform scheme (denounced by his oppo. nents as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAWAII: The Big Change | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Once Upon a Mattress (book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller; music by Mary Rodgers; dances by Joe Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Off Broadway, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Previn's hectic career is sometimes likened to Leonard Bernstein's, a comparison he modestly rejects. The record, though, is of a Jack-of-all-musical-trades, and a master of many. In ten years he has worked on something like 30 films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Juggler of the Keyboard | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A fanciful satire about an Englishman in the cow country, roping and branding bovine Jayne Mansfield.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A fanciful satire about an Englishman in the cow country, roping and branding bovine Jayne Mansfield.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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