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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nader's feeling for duty and constant study grew out of his family upbringing in Winsted, Conn., a gracious town of 8,000. His mother Rose used to ask friends all about films showing at the local movie house and would send her four children only to the few that had useful messages. Nightly dinner was more a course in forensics than food: it often lasted four or five hours, and everyone was expected to contribute his opinions to the topic of the evening. Nadra Nader, now 77, a Lebanese immigrant who built up a moderately prosperous restaurant business, presided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Lonely Hero: Never Kowtow | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...thing -at the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton, Brandeis and a year of graduate work at the Free University in Berlin. At Manhattan, Gelles studied under Michael Steinberg, a distinguished musicologist who now writes reviews for the Boston Globe. Like Steinberg, Critic Gelles insists upon high musical standards. Four weeks ago in the Globe, Steinberg chided Carlo Maria Giulini, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If Danny Kaye or Victor Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote Steinberg, "the audience would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critic at Large | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...novel, A Smuggler's Bible, was about a man trying to invent a world and then smuggle himself into the lives of his invented and remembered populace. In the author's second novel, Hind's Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result is an often funny, painfully intense psychological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Present Imperfect | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson's attack was seriously impeded for most of the game by sloppy passing and difficulty getting the puck out of its own zone. B.U. displayed extremely aggressive play in the Harvard zone and scored four of its goals amidst confusion around the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Freshmen Edge Harvard Skaters, 6-5 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Billy Flynn led the Terrier attack by equaling Hynes' four-goal production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Freshmen Edge Harvard Skaters, 6-5 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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