Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isn't very difficult anymore to get a visa for travel in the Soviet Union. Ten years ago, no one went behind the Iron Curtain. And still last year the U.S. government was stamping all passports, "Not valid for travel to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...post-Broadway hits still linger for the benefit of provincials. Can-Can, by Cole Porter, isn't offensively risque from the second balcony of the Opera House. Today at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Bus Stop is a comedy of delicate curves with Peggy Ann Garner. Today at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Colonial...
...better off for being able to explain "everything" about themselves, there is no doubt that any study of human behavior is a dangerous thing. Even for experts, the hypnotic study of age regression requires real care. For an exploiter or even a sincere but half-informed layman there isn't much excuse...
...ranges from Vedanta to Karen Homey, Spring believes that her role of Lily Ruskin in Bride proves that "Lily hasn't lost her appetite for life and is now free to do ridiculous things. She can play with life much more because she is mature of heart. She isn't stopped because other people are not doing it. She drives to Mexico alone. If something appeals to the mature person, if there is no really cogent reason for not doing it, let us do it, let us not be bound by hidebound convention...
When the decision got out, Dutch Catholic publications unanimously rose to defend the sculptor's exaggeration, argued that it suggested a frail mortal burdened and glorified by his heavenly mission. "Isn't wonder worth more than admiration?" wrote one commentator. This week the sculptor planned to meet with church authorities to urge them to change the commission's verdict. "This is Paul," Vlasblom maintained, "the man directly in the grip of God." But the commission seemed adamant and the huge clay statue, still uncast in concrete, began to deteriorate in its wrapping of old rags and oilcloth...