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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The magazine is an ingenious conglomeration--from the the heavy stylization of Edgar de Bresson's "A Chapter From A Novel," a stylization which seems remarkably successful in its design to obscure the fact that he has nothing to say, to a condescending essay on the local literary scene by...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Re the "Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

You say it's possible to write on a hypersensitive skin with a fingernail. Like 'most mothers, I became resigned early to being less than nothing to my children. Thanks to your article, I'm now a heroine. We've been holding demonstrations until every exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Scarcely had he recovered his seat than he heard Miss Schroeder's flats approaching sharply 'along the stacks. He concealed his agitation and began to fill his pen just as if nothing had happened.

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Love Finds a Way | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

The theme of the Carnival was "the Good Ol' Days"--the Roaring Twenties--which the Daily Dartmouth described as "a mad age of loud parties and wild dances and much beverage." This mad age was in evidence all over the campus, but somehow ol' mad spirit was not up to...

Author: By Judith Blitman and Joanna Burnstine, S | Title: Winter Carnival: Reflections of a Mad Age | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

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