Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...
...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July...
Written by John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon describes the attempts of U. S. officers to inflict democracy upon the remote Okinawan village of Tobiki. A young college professor turned army captain, effectively played by John Forsythe, is sent to Tobiki with explicit instructions: he must build a pentagon-shaped school, deliver a lecture series on democracy, and establish a Women's League for Democratic Action. Forsythe is quite natural and convincing in the role...
Banned aboard ship by U.S. Navy, banned on Sundays by the City of Boston, The Moon Is Blue is a celluloid peek into present day American sexual mores. But only the most stodgy will find its lampooning of erotic fashions and follies other than civilized and urbane...
...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME. July...