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...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis looks as licit as a child with an ice-cream cone, but she is the Other Woman in a hilariously illicit schedule of sex on the one-day-a-week plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 5, 1964 | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...regular: ovulation is possible on almost any day after But a variation of the anti-ovulant hormones may properties when given in small doses. Such a probably be morally acceptable to Catholics, for Pope Plus in 1951 that "One may even hope that science will succeed viding this licit [rhythm] method with a sufficiently secure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Basis | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...heart not suffer at the thought of the poison broadcast widely, without concern for so many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw a merciful veil, as an occasion for descriptions and reconstructions that are nothing more or less than handbooks for crime and incentives to vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pope & the Press | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...movie theater starts mooning about Grace, there could be nothing squalid about it; his wife would have to be made to understand that it was something fine-and bigger than all of them. Her peculiar talent, you might say, is that she inspires licit passion." From the day in 1951 when she walked into Director Fred Zinnemann's office wearing prim white gloves ("Nobody came to see me before wearing white gloves"), the well-bred Miss Grace Kelly of Philadelphia has baffled Hollywood. She is a rich girl who has struck it rich. She was not discovered behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Dear me, how clever of Mr. McCord to turn out such "Lost" Positives as licit, iterate, fulgent and fangled ... All of them are in my Webster, and most of them not uncommon in literate circles. [Let] Harvard-man McCord...heed this monition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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