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Word: indifferentism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surviving a rather indifferent opening performance, the recently-formed Players' Theatre group is presenting a second weekend run of its musical take-off on the features and foibles of life in Beantown. Bolstered by the advantage of first--night experience and a week of hard work in which to apply...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

"The simple man," says Cash, ". . . rarely has any considerable capacity for the real." If the naked struggle for existence is relaxed even a little, he becomes a romantic and a hedonist. He develops a limitless credulity, and begins to "accept what pleases him and reject what does not." In every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychoanalysis of a Nation | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

He said that Turkey is prepared to back up her alliance with Great Britain and "cannot remain indifferent to foreign activities which might occur in her zone of security."

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

William Clark, graduate of the College in 1912 and the Law School in 1915, recently appointed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and sire of Blair Clark, 1939-40 Crimson president, is the gentleman being back-patted. It seems that Federal Judge Clark has a quaintness-appeal. He is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/19/1941 | See Source »

The general theme of Australian Patrick White's novel is that the living and the dead are sworn enemies, that the archenemies of living hope are the indifferent, "the stultifying, the living dead." This fervently stated theme is worked out too intricately in personal terms to make much general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex for Three | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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