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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect Harry and Ike didn't know they had anything in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the play-wright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Stratford, Conn. and the Future of American Shakespeare | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...given talent and a personal magnetism (which is unanalyzable). He needs a voice of wide range and many timbres. He must be able to speak and project with utter clarity at all dynamic levels. He should be able to convey the music and poetry of the text. He must know how to breathe properly (Shakespeare is unusually difficult in this regard). He needs a feeling for rhythm and tempo; and must be able to get at and put across the meaning of the words...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Stratford, Conn. and the Future of American Shakespeare | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...while--and you know it--that grey-haired, white-aproned, full-bodied, flat-footed American Mother, intrepid in her virtue and the iron-eyed apotheosis of "The Family Unit," bestrode the welcome mat, patrolled the hearth, and demanded homage...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 is constantly popping up on playbills. But when you buy your ticket you don't know what you're going to see, for Tonight is a nonet of one-acters from which any given production is supposed to choose three. Unfortunately, the nine are of uneven quality; and so, perforce, will be the 84 possible shows...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Tonight at 8:30 | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

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