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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything happens to Gervaise. At the beginning of this grim dramatization of a Zola story, the "best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Gervaise | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

In fact some doubt exists among Republicans as well as Democrats whether the idea of a welfare state is completely responsible for Michigan's dilemma. Highly industrialized and dependent on the auto industry, the state was very hard hit by the recession, and unemployment has ranged between twelve and fifteen...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Buy Now, Pay Never | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

"This rumor that I was kicked out of Harvard is something I don't mind fostering. It adds to my "legend" or glamour--what have you. Actually, my last year in the graduate school coincided with work on my record and it was getting so that I could do little...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

Serialists deal in extremes, and so, opposed to the pianissimos and silences of Wolff was a gusty piano piece by Frederick Rzewski, a remarkable fortissimo rush of runs, heavy chords and long trills in Rzewski's rather personal style. There is little nontechnical description one can give about such a...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: Revolution in New Music: Webern and Beyond | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

Since the New England championships were held simultaneously with the Yale meet, the Crimson sent only a makeshift lineup, composed of second-stringers and manager Gerry Kelly. Still, the varsity took fourth place in the tournament, and Roberts came away with the New England epee crown after a fence-off...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

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