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Word: gem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweet Adeline, Watson admirably conveys the warmth, the yearning, and the vulnerability appropriate to her character. And there are entrusted to her a sheaf of appealing songs: "Here Am I," "Out of the Blue," "Don't Ever Leave Me," "The Sun About to Rise," and--the finest gem of the score--"Why Was I Born...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...little gem of a theater that houses Molly would be worth a review in itself. The Dock Street Theater opened in 1736 and is said to be the oldest professional theater in the U.S. The present playhouse represents a 1937 restoration that resembles a religious meetinghouse fashioned with seasoned, dark-hued wood and seats that resemble church pews. For Simon Gray and Charleston's Spoleto Festival, the old house represents fresh beginnings and new horizons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...Turn the Hopi Homeland over to the Peabody Coal Co. for Strip Mining for $5 million and there are endangered butterflies and laetrile-smugglers (laetrile is a banned anti-cancer drug), and the Animal Bill of Rights which has received 2M. signatures in France. We learn the latest gem on ginseng (the FDA calls it an additive so it is being tested for safety...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Checkout Counter Spiritualism | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Back at Harvard, government professor Michael Walzer--a real gem of a lecturer--will come to grips with "Necessity and Choice in War" at 7 p.m. in the Moors Living Room, North House. Walzer recently returned from Israel and should have some interesting stories to tell...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: LECTURES | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...real gem McCall's staff dreamed up, though, was a program of sending"negative greeting cards" to tourists, prospective immigrants, and anyone who contemplated moving to, or even visiting Oregon. However, the cards were only half serious--most of them emphasized the heavy rains Oregonians experience each year--and they probably backfired by actually drawing attention to the state's pristine beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Real McCall | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

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