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Word: indifferentism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE WORDS ring hollow. As Thomas Mendip, the disenchanted soldier of fortune, Harper's ability to simultaneously remember his lines and deliver them with conviction is limited indeed. When he is inspired, the impact of his existential query is startling, but more often than not he appears to concentrate exclusively...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Air, Water, But Alas, No Fire | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

In fact, Reed is an indifferent performer by American standards and a habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Now 17 months have gone by, and no such series has materialized. Instead, Moore has frittered away the time by trying to parlay an indifferent singing voice and nice legs into a career as a song-and-dance woman. Last winter she came up with a special called How to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Once in Love with Mary | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

There isn't a musician writing or playing rock 'n' roll today who does not owe him, not a songwriter who hasn't passed through-even sometimes settled in-territory that Dylan explored and posted years ago. All Dylan has been collecting on his debts lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan and Young on the Road | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Though one was mainly a novelist and storyteller and the other a born play wright, Turgenev is sometimes regarded as a precursor of Chekhov. But even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love in Limbo | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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