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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Big families are fine-until a hard-pressed father has to pay two or three college tuitions at once. Last week the jolt was eased by the University of Portland (Ore.), a Roman Catholic institution (enrollment: 1,550) which announced an unusual sliding-scale plan for big families. Terms: full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Cut-Rate Schmidts | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

The climactic aria belonged to Mamma Callas, who works at the Manhattan jewelry shop of Mamma Gabor. Last week she recalled with gratitude how Meneghini once sent her $40, while Maria sent her nothing. Said Evangelia of her daughter: "Meneghini was a father and a mother to Maria. Now she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Love & Money | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Saturday is healing for the whole week. "The telephone is silent. I can think, read, study, walk, or do nothing. It is an oasis of quiet. When night falls, I go back to the wonderful nerve-racking Broadway game. Often I make my best contribution of the week then and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Life of Mr. Abramson | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

As usual with Soviet celebrities, facts are few. He was born at Rostov-on-Don, is 51 and has a son at Moscow University. About 5 ft. 9 in. tall, he has brown eyes that narrow to slits when he laughs and give him an oriental look. He is an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buttoned-Up Spaceman | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Alberto Giacometti, 57, is a hungry sort of spaceman who eats away the forms he makes, leaving space supreme. "I see reality life size," he once remarked, "just as you do." But his portraits got smaller and smaller. He would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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