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Word: nov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Nov. 26 review of Maria Callas as Tosca is the final straw. As one who was present at this dull performance, I can testify that Callas looked like Audrey Hepburn, acted respectably and sang like a member of a second-rate road company. Your music critic either has low standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...silt of the Po has been pushing the shore line into the Adriatic. Cut off from the sea, Spina declined in late Roman times to a village; then it disappeared. Cemeteries believed to be connected with it were found and recently excavated by both thieves and archaeologists (TIME, Nov. 8, 1954), but the remains of the city itself lay obstinately hidden under the flats and shallow lagoons of the advancing delta. Some skeptics maintained that Spina has always been only a myth, rather than a real city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Discovery of Spina | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Marcelino. A miracle play filled with a shining sweetness, made in Spain by Director Ladislao Vajda (TIME, Nov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italianmade movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME, Nov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

First published in England 25 years ago, Son of Dust is laced with the sort of distinctive, evocative writing that has marked Author Prescott's more ambitious and accomplished works, e.g.,, Mary Tudor (TIME, Nov. 23, 1953) and Man on a Donkey (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952). But it is marred by a preening pedantry that too often finds Fulcun leaning on his quillons, sitting on a faldstool, glancing out of a dorter window or camping out on his alod-without benefit of definitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God & Woman | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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