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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he has no idea who will pay the bills to get him even as far as Yugoslavia, Bobby is so sure that he will get to Russia that he has already begun studying Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master Bobby | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...series of positionally arrested images" of the club head and tell whether it is approaching the ball at the proper angle. The University of California physicist shipped one trainer to a fellow golfer in the White House, last week received a patent (No. 2,825,569) on his idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...giving up any idea of a political career, Godfrey felt one consolation: "If I stay where I am, I can concern myself only with our country's survival." Out of concern for his own survival on TV, Godfrey has added a $5,000-a-week giveaway to his Talent Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. Godfrey Yields | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...craggy piece that achieved its emotional impact through a series of sharp contrasts. The music was by turn slow, dense, lyrical, harsh, full of sharp emotional edges. Composer Barraud got a polite hearing but sent his audience delving into their programs in search of the unifying idea the music seemed to lack. CJ Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Premieres | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...idea, of course, was to give the glamorous Dietrich back to the millions who once adored her on the screen-and who still jampack the nightclubs she plays in. But Director Samuel Taylor has tactlessly insisted that the lady (who now admits to being fiftyish) concentrate on sex, and has largely overlooked the possibilities of her sophisticated comedy talents. The moviegoer, as a result, is sometimes painfully aware that the siren is a bit rusty; yet he is seldom allowed to realize that the belle, even with diminished resonance, still rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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