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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harking back nostalgically to the good old days when party activists worked seven days a week and scarcely found time to eat or sleep, the provincial paper Gazeta Robotnicza blamed the Ziebice fiasco on the fact that Ziebice's Communists were unwilling to accept responsibility. "We might as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Life of the Party | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

A tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Rounding out their first full week as man and diva, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Britain's famed public schools are flourishing as before. The class-conscious Englishman still feels compelled to give his children a distinctive U (upper-class) accent, recoils in horror from the non-U patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quiet Revolution | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

"There is nothing wrong with being a hack writer," says self-styled Hollywood Hack Leslie (The Marriage-Go-Round) Stevens. "I would point with pride to the inspired hacking of Shakespeare, Michelangelo-you can go through a big list. I am a firm believer in Hollywood's golden future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Hack | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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