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Word: non (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Togetherness Stuff. There are non-Clansmen in town whose attitude toward Shirley is somewhat more analytical. They focus on the calculation behind the talent, enjoy the "natural" comedienne but see the cool planning that makes her tick. They take pleasure in her company, as did the friend who squired her to Santa Anita one afternoon, smug in the knowledge that she had telephoned a gagwriter and announced: "I'm going to the races. Give me ten jokes on racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...from cow dung). But apparently he was trying to crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls at Kessel's eyelids is apt to find they conceal nothing except what meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lass Who Loved a Lion | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned sex that we read of every day. I want to devote the rest of my life to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen persons), while 35 per cent of the non-believers took the opposite stand in favor of surrender...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...have surrendered the belief in heaven and in the resurrection of the dead--but nevertheless, no concern is to the non-believer more vital, urgent, and intimate than that with vitam venturi saeculi--the life of the world to come

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

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