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Word: gents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug-taking set who formed a "Transcendental community where they could maintain a level of experience which cuts beyond routine ego and social games," noting also that "there were stories of students using hallucinogens for seductions, both heterosexual and homosexual." But it was The New Yorker and Gent magazine that did the most to refurbish my faith in the glamor and excitement of life at Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: The Real Harvard | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...Rand's overview of life around the square is credible, it took Gent magazine to really probe beneath the surface, to discover the hidden sources of this "strange magnetism." Foreign observers often have the deepest insights into a society--it took a De Tocqueville to see the real United States, a Halevy to see the real England, and it took Gent magazine to see the real Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: The Real Harvard | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

After a promising beginning, Father Goose hits the shoals and settles down as a slick but superficial imitation of The African Queen. Its darling juveniles strain their precocity to freshen up the familiar fireworks between a proper young lady and an improper gent. The war itself looks like one of the livelier attractions at Disneyland. Grant and Caron endure pretty little hardships, finally try to get married by a chaplain over short-wave radio during a Japanese strafing attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smooth Sailor | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Woman of Straw. "Take off that uniform and look like a woman. Rustle, crackle and swish!" bellows Ralph Richardson. Nothing could be easier for Gina Lollobrigida. As the nurse assigned to a crotchety British tycoon who spends his days in a wheelchair, Gina soon rustles the old gent into a marriage proposal. She gets the idea from his sexy nephew, Sean Connery-an actor who occasionally takes leave of his James Bond roles, only to find that crime pays equally well elsewhere. Just as one might expect, Sean and Gina plan to share the inheritance once Richardson kicks off. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gina Makes Hay | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...masterminding a successful jailbreak for a rich client every couple of years, the businessman-of-crime known as the Scarperer makes enough to live the life of a gent of leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At His Boozy Best | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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