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Word: guildenstern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy for the mind of beautiful Christine. In Author Ferber's hands, the battle is unequal. Not only does Christine refuse to marry the rich man's son Kennedy has in mind for her, but it is also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross Guildenstern, will blend his dark good looks with Chris's golden beauty to help produce a better Alaska. On the way to an unexceptional ending, Author Ferber generously shares with the reader all her newfound, often interesting Alaskan lore-and when she raises her voice, it sounds as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Igloo Reading | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...guts into the neighbor room," and cracks a joke about the corpse starting to stink in a month or so. Far from feeling queasy in matters of life and death, Hamlet shows repeatedly that he is coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning-so that they cannot be shriven by a priest and will surely go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Night, Tough Prince | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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