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Word: hearded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornell campus saw Alex Rubens "gorge out" on a cold October night in 1977...No one heard his body strike the boulders more than a hundred feet below, or saw it being swept from the rocks by the current and sent cascading down the gorge toward the lake, a mile away, where the next day a fisherman spotted it floating face down twenty yards from shore...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...right governs, the left thinks,' says a familiar French dictum. No longer. A vigorous group of right-wing thinkers is now challenging the left's longstanding intellectual hegemony, proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A New Right Raises Its Voice | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...acrobats capered across the stage. Flames shot up from nowhere. Flowers sprouted suddenly in a spittoon. A chorus stalked the aisles chanting a pitch for patent medicine. The hero was played by no less than three performers-a singer, a dancer and a magician. Before a note was even heard, the magician was hanging by his feet high over the stage, wriggling free of a straitjacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Houdini: The Riddle Remains | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Coogan had no guile in him and a heart as wide as a boulevard. When Coogan is forcibly separated from the Tramp, his adoptive father, his cries of desperation can be heard plainly even in this silent film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Brats and Perfect People | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well," remarked Edmund Wilson in "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" "But, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective story writers . . ." Despite Wilson's judgment, Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey, her witty sleuth, have become two of the most beloved figures in detective fiction. An engaging mix of upper-class sang-froid and Sherlockian intellect, Wimsey set new standards in highbrow snooping. As viewers of the PBS series can testify, only Wimsey would drive a Daimler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspired Wimsey | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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