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Word: intrinsice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the museums are obviously built to honor particular men who have been presidents of the United States, the overall impression is neither biographical nor chronological. In many instances the idea of the presidency is actually used only as a springboard to exhibit themes of possible intrinsic interest, but certainly...

Author: By Martha S. Lawrence, | Title: The Other Presidential Libraries | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

Charlie and Bill stop at nothing in their lust for gambling, be it in cards or crap or horses or basketball, and most of us would look on them as freakish characters crazy enough to risk their savings on the roll of a die. But, after two hours of witnessing...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Splitting For Points Unknown | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

Not long ago, Sheldon S. Wolin, a professor of politics at Princeton University writing in the New York Review of Books, was wrestling with the same problem. He found solace, or at least something of a possible silver lining, in an unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: First Principles | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Calculating entrepreneurial intellectuals took a look at tennis and thought for a while. There were some of the raw materials already intrinsic to the game: the sudden death nature of the tiebreakers introduced by James Van Alen in the 60s; overhead smashes and crosscourt chops, cuts, slices, lobs, which reminded...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Lobsters' Game | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

The recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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