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Word: modernness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS, by Vine Deloria. A savagely funny and perceptive book by a young member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe examines the modern plight of red men beset by white plunderers and progressives alike. Recommended without reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

GEORGE F. MONAHAN Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Jersey City State College Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...hard to say where the spoof ends and the soap opera starts. After Butch and Sundance flee to Bolivia, a sterile melodrama sets in. The script now embraces such weighty matters as the alienation of the cowboy from modern society, the alienation of the outlaw from repressive society, and various other alienations. In other words, alienation-a good theme, but a little too ponderously applied to this wisp of a comedy...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Moviegoer Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at the Savoy | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

...here again so after two weeks of basically exhibition predictions it's time for the real thing. I regret that I haven't been doing better than 600 in my picks, but those of you who follow the comes will notice that for the first time in modern comic strip history, the Jackson Twins were wrong too. And it Jan and Jill can give some bad advice. I figure those of us who are less perfect are entitled to an occasional error...

Author: By Bennett H, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

...highways glitter with the carapaces of new automobiles, while the finned monsters of the '50s have all crawled off to ghetto side streets to die. Even the city's showplaces are touched with the grotesque. Atop its status hotel-a clash of world's fair modern and imitation European traditional-a tired combo plays 1940s two-steps for well-oiled customers, who are served by aging waitresses in miniskirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing as a Natural Reaction | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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