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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloomgarden sometimes snaps up a show the first time he hears it. "When Meredith Willson telephoned and asked me to produce The Music Man," he recalls, "I said to myself, 'Who the hell is Willson?' It had been so long since I'd heard him on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Good Pickings | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Fortunately, some professors have recognized that the secrecy surrounding a thesis grade is unfair to the student and unworthy of a teacher. In History and Literature, the senior receives the names of his two graders, along with their grades and comments. In radical and somewhat guilty opposition to this realistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hidden Persuaders | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

THE SOUTH hears more talk than it sees critical signs of recession. Some Southern towns have their share of auto, steel-and oil-industry layoffs, and many textile mills are on a two-day week. Tennessee's troubled coal industry is 50% laid off. Yet unemployment, percentagewise, is less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Morning After | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Swami | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

"Here comes Superman! ... He hears the whistle . . . Listen to that snoring . . . There's the kazoo . . . Bop! ... He grabs his friend . . . and they're off!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lennie's Kindergarten | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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