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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its manifold wit and moments of wisdom, the plotless Heartbreak House drifts along with its people, and at times reflects their languor. This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one. Where Chekhov portrayed something dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Six days of the week and late into every night, Hubbell Robinson drives himself and his underlings with the kind of awesome energy that has made him TV's biggest producer. Sundays at his Beverly Hills home he likes to relax by donning a topee or a menacing German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hubble Bubble | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

The edict blew up a storm all over Canada. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "The idea that 'fat teachers aren't good teachers' is absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spirit & Flesh | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Cross-fertilization sometimes works so well that it proves distracting. Psychologist Charles Osgood of the University of Illinois came to write a book on language behavior, wound up studying Hopi Indians at the edge of the Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time to Think | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Quarterback Meredith has certainly done as much for S.M.U. as such greats as Halfbacks Doak Walker ('50) and Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Texas Whip | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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