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Word: favorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Knowland-who, by his supporting lost causes, not voting in favor of the McCarthy censure, and his political immaturity, as shown by the recent election, has ruined the Republican Party in California for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...party bloc" fallacy. Your article is so contrived as to make the average reader believe I am in favor of a one-party system, i.e., of some fascist state. On the contrary, I am on record as having stated or written many times (e.g., in the February issue of the Paris Revue des Deux-Mondes) that France cannot expect to have less than five or six parties. What I did was to lead some splinter parties which had exactly the same basic ideas to merge into a single organization, which surely is no crime against democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...advantage of the strict separation at Yale is in favor of the college student, says Whiting. "At Yale, the undergraduate is kingpin." He adds that the trend among the Harvard faculty is a preference to teach on the graduate level; at Yale, the opposite is true...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Look Homeward, Angel: Divided Allegiances | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...tolerated the Harvardians for sentimental reasons so long as the Irish had the money. But it seems less likely that the Harvard community (insofar as it exists), were it transported to an ideal community (insofar as it could agree on one), would be inclined to accord Curley a similar favor...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...physical force; and the vague but dense tissue of hints toward homosexual relationships which is woven in the dialogue, indicates that they are rivals for him. Much is made of the fact that the guard is his friend (strange, that these avowed criminals should value so highly the favor of the only non-criminal character in the play). This guard brings him cigarettes in token of amity from Snowball, a savage Negro convict, "the real boss of the prison. Snowball's a king." Green Eyes says of Snowball, "The whole prison's under his authority, but right under...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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