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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallagher fouled out with ten minutes left and Coach Bob Harrison put the team into a zone which rattled Columbia briefly, but not enough. At one point Dover and Janczewski threw in some free throws and lay-ups to close within 14. Walaszek's three-point play shut off that last burst...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Five Bows By 18; Dotson Scores 22 | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...room, on two-thirds of the city's 2,100,000 rental apartments. Like all price controls, rent ceilings have inflated demands and shriveled supply. Older couples hang on to bargain-rent apartments, which are often larger than they need, after their children have grown up and left home. Private builders, contending that they cannot build cheaply enough to compete with the controlled apartments, have practically stopped putting up middle-income housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Manhattan Madness | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...side, he was great-grandson of an African slave originally presented to Czar Peter the Great. His father's family, as he put it, was "the detritus of a decrepit aristocracy" that went back 600 years into feudal times. Born in 1799 in Moscow, Pushkin was left largely on his own by indifferent parents. As a boy he was impressed by French liter ature, especially the savage wit of Voltaire, and absorbed Russian folklore from his peasant nurse - both basic strains in his later writing. He proved erratic in school, but by the age of 18, he had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cloak of Genius | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Actors these days make reputations by playing junkies, warlocks, maniacs, hippies, fags and dictators. Somehow it is reassuring to know that there's still an actor left who will play a leathery oil-well firefighter with the unlikely name of Chance Buckman. That's John Wayne. The Duke may not be too good at rendering Brechtian anguish, but no one else can play a better John Wayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dry Well | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Defense? I am afraid that the incident at the Design School has been made the occasion for a very strange defense of the princpile of academic freedom: a defense marked, on the one hand, by an extreme readiness to rush to the barricades against any incursion from the left (or from students), and, on the other, by an equally extreme readiness to lay down arms whenever the government looms into view. I endorse the principle whole-heartedly; I don't believe that that is the appropriate way to defend it. Michael Walzer

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALZER EXPLAINS | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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