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Word: ghouls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wondered, in another story, whether the "A" of adultery might not stand for admirable. Williams is full of similar moral ambivalence. His oppressive, superheated tropics are Poe's "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir," and his characters some times seem like Poe's spectral phantoms of a locked-in ego, walking somnambulically to their dooms. Williams shares Melville's somber cosmic dread. It was of the Encantadas, the desolate islands of the Galapagos, that Melville wrote: "In no world but a fallen one could such lands exist." And it is "on the beach of the Encantadas" that Sebastian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...folk festival when what we really want to know is how things stand in Dracula's castle above the town. But this is at most a minor flaw in a generally excellent production. Dracula's Daughter, in short, makes fine entertainment, and tomorrow night's WNAC presentation - The Mad Ghoul-promises to be equally rewarding...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: Dracula's Daughter | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...menace merchants have surveyed their shrinking returns and concluded that overwork at last had killed the pterodactyl that laid the golden egg. With that the world's leading gooseflesh peddlers-American International Films of Hollywood and Hammer Film Productions Ltd. of London-decided to go back on the ghoul standard. The bats were summoned from the industry's well-stocked belfry, and in recent months they have been sucking the green stuff out of the public at an impressive rate. Three of the new horrors, made for less than $300,000, will gross more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Asked about his favorite U.S. vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire, a fat male fiend and a child ogre: "I have never been there, but from what I hear, it sounds like my kind of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...quite all is pleasant in Kennedy's projected foreign aid Arcadia. A few familiar gnomes will still spoil the revels of economist-nymphs: tied ("Buy American") funds and too pronounced a preference for hard loans repayable only in dollars. Nor has the President entirely exorcised the most offensive ghoul of Eisenhower days, the irritating insistance that foreign nations ought to grow more the way American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arcadia | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

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