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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less successfully describes the frightful misunderstandings of a married couple. The story takes the form of a series of seperate, mistaken images which the two thrust upon each other. Though these psychological forays are real enough by themselves, they don't seem connected. This lacks a continuing life, and isn't really a story...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: i.e. | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...completed a lyric poem and is blocking out in her mind a kindly and truthful book about the village, The Devil is in Us All! Considering the best-selling success of a recent, sensationalistic attempt by a young American marm, it would probably enjoy acclaim. When she isn't baking do-nuts or rolls for the rest of the village, she reads such writers as Dylan Thomas, Saroyan or Maugham, and is willing to take on all comers concerning their relative merits...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Home for Christmas | 12/19/1956 | See Source »

What makes Manie a Pied Piper of stars? He says: "My relations with artists are close. I'm a bachelor. Supper isn't on the table at 6 o'clock. I come and go as I please. So I can devote my time to them and I'm blessed with their confidence." He was best man when Harry James married Betty Grable, gave the bride away when Sinatra married Ava Gardner. In a world of sharkskin-suited man-eaters, he has risen to the top by sheer amiability, consideration and eagerness to please. Once when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pied Piper's Problems | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...think we will get something from the Ford Foundation soon," he revealed, adding "This isn't only a guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elder Proposes Graduates Increase Individual Study | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental ill health must be reckoned as one in one, for there isn't a person who does not experience frequently a mental or emotional disturbance severe enough to disrupt his functioning as a welladjusted, happy and efficiently performing individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Everybody's Mental Health | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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