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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barry Morse as the iconoclastic John Tanner plays with deft versatility which succeeds in both the comic scenes and the more serious Don Juan in Hell interlude. Opposite Morse is Nancy Wickwire who sparkles as Tanner's impish, if unwanted, suitor. As the sentimental slush Octavius Robinson, Michael Higgins is handsome, winsome, and properly Victorian...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

After reading the Letters to the Editor concerning the Billy Graham crusade, I have concluded that hell is a place where Catholics are forced to listen to Billy Graham and Protestants to Fulton Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...talk with executives of big corporations, you find that as individuals they care about a hell of a lot of things that are never reflected in the programs they sponsor. There is often a complete divorcement between the individual and his corporate personality. I'm not saying that his primary job is to educate, but the sponsor cannot escape his responsibility . . . for contributing to the level of taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Opiate of the People | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...Inside, the ballad's hero, Bushranger Ned Kelly, stood silently as the hangman slipped the noose over his head, said with a shrug, "Such is life," and was dropped to his death. Ever since, the legend of Ned Kelly, the last of Australia's hell-for-leather desperadoes, has lingered on as Australia's private pride and public shame, celebrated in half a dozen movies and retold in scores of paperbacks and biographies. Now Ned Kelly is riding hard across the canvases of young Australian painters set on finding a theme that will stamp their works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kelly Rides Again | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...WEST, by Barbara Ward (152 pp.; Norton; $3.50), performs one of those housewifely miracles of sorting out centuries and civilizations as if they were so many knives, forks and spoons. It is a pleasure to behold if not always to believe British Author Ward as she tidies up the Hell's Kitchen of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Pundits & the World | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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