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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is all supposed to be very folksy and good-natured and wise. But neither Bogdanovich nor Scenarist Alvin Sargent (Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing) seems to understand that the tutoring Moses gives Addie is not so much sentimental education as congenial corruption. We are supposed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Depression Diorama | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

Food comes to mind as a metaphor because of the character Algernon's good-natured gluttony. While he and his friend Jack ponder the mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Just Dessert | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

SO INSTEAD of understanding, women at Harvard and Radcliffe are mocked and receive "good natured" abuse when they attempt to make best of a situation which is stacked against them from the moment of unequal admissions. It is against the rules to exclude people from dining halls, but when the...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Prisoners of Sex | 3/29/1973 | See Source »

Mrs. Miller, grey haired and compact, has been silent until now, but we both start to trade good-natured complaints about how long the trip is. Now she pulls up her bra straps and twists a little in her seat. "I'm going to get my Ma in Detroit. We...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Riding to Ann Arbor | 1/16/1973 | See Source »

For Superlawyers are more than legal representatives Government is an existential fact which they manipulate to the benefit of their corporate clients. Government subsidies legalized price fixing, and deterrents to competition are their clients' rewards while the lawyers themselves collect from $35 to $250 per hour. They avoid publicity seeking...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: D.C.'s Blue-Chip Barristers | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

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