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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Her appearances are fastidiously staged and rehearsed from a black loose-leaf notebook that programs every musical sequence, every lighting cue, even every hand gesture. Even more important to her than the craft of show biz s the art of the popular song. Over the years, she has learned the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: Parsimonious Peggy | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

The Dow sit-in was not well-organized. In fact, it almost wasn't. Students for a Democratic Society learned the recruriter was coming only two days in advance. In a special meeting of the executive committee, almost every one of SDS's leaders spoke against an obstructive sit-in...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Mallinckrodt | 10/28/1967 | See Source »

His proposition was this. All the evil in the world, the race hate and his own decline was caused by the devil and the CIA. It was the same shop-worn devil but now, in this century, no longer served by solitary, gutted souls but by an institution. There is...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: TOPICS: George and Spain | 10/28/1967 | See Source »

Hartline and Granit, by contrast, are primarily electro-physiologists who have made important discoveries regarding the nervous responses of vision. Hartline, 63, a professor at New York's Rockefeller University, has traced the patterns of nerve responses after light touches the retina's receptors. Using horseshoe crabs, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Good Beginning | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

A poet named Bezdomny has brilliantly executed a commission, a poem on Christ, but although it is correctly derisive, his work commits the error of assuming that Christ actually existed. Bezdomny's editor, Berlioz, is straightening out his tame poet on his shaky ideology when the Devil arrives to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil in Moscow | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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