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Word: objectives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor. There are lots of things. How you walk. Try walking up to a door and opening it some time on a stage. It isn't as simple as you think. You mustn't stand close to anyone on the stage. Two objects together become one object in the eye of the audience. Here's an actor's trick. Keep looking at somebody's hands. Pretty soon he'll feel like his arms are 16 feet long. He'll fall apart trying to put them somewhere. You have to know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Cole said, "There is no question of politics involved. The Conservative League does not object to the selling of Green Feathers. It is rather a matter of fundamental principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cole Retracts Protest Against Green Feather | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

...French National Museums, is not merely learned. He is a "skin-diver," and loves nothing better than swimming under water with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diving Diggers | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Another paragraph of the formal complaint reads, however. "There is no question of politics involved. The Conservative league does not object to the selling of Green Feathers, etc. It is rather a matter of rundamental principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservative League Will Protest Legality of Green Feather Group | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

...literary aspirant did not turn a hair, though the stench would have overpowered most people. He calmly fetched a shovel and a wheelbarrow, conveyed the horrible object to the bottom of the garden, dug a large hole, buried it, and then returned to wash his hands carefully and dust his knees with a handkerchief scented with a few drops of eau de Cologne." The same method may be detected, of course, in The Forsyte Saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Generation | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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