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Word: jollyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The other and more significant force is a new style of sensitivity or perhaps paranoia. It is best articulated by Comedian Flip Wilson. In his familiar television routine, a dialogue is going famously, fairly humming with jolly good will. Then the other party touches Flip-a friendly clap on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE AGE OF TOUCHINESS | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

> Mary Stewart, nee Rainbow, 54, is a vicar's daughter from Durham in the rugged northeast of England, who had enough narrative knack by boarding-school age to keep the other girls awake telling stories for hours after lights-out. She is the brisk, jolly image of a faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Road to Manderley | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Blare of Music. A white dove of peace chirps briefly, but flies off as a black widow spider of a model plane wings its way with a searching deliberateness across the rear-stage curtain. We see the bomber's victims-to-be, other grey-lady puppets. They sway and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dance of Death | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Died. Roger M. Kyes, 64, General Motors executive who served the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower in 1953; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Ohio. When G.M. President Charles E. Wilson became Secretary of Defense, he took along his vice president, Kyes, as No. 2 man. Tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1971 | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

"Face it, Sammy Four-Eyes, you're scared. Want me to get you out?" A superwoman, no less! But it didn't seem like the time to argue, and so I played an obedient Clark Kent to her Lois Lane. Three big whacks and two little nudges with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SOB STORY, OR, A BESTSELLER BESTED | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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