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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The writing in Dandin is rather loose, but Moliere was careful that each act would top the previous one. He noted down a good deal of the comic byplay; but, just as certainly, he intended the performance to be decked out with a lot of improvised farce, in the tradition...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Moliere's 'Dandin' | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

Last week Kennedy was in the White House, and the Democrats held overwhelming control of the Congress-against 35 Republicans in the Senate (one vacancy), 263 to 174 in the House. The result so far during the 1962 session of Congress: of some 50 bills, both major and of lesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dead, Dying or Doubtful | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

The cantata introduces an old man, the Spirit of the Sea, who relates the story of the sinking of Atlantis to a young man named Christopher Columbus. The story winds through the wanderings of Hercules, his destruction of the three-headed monster Geryones, and finally ends with the vision of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Falla's Last Dream | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Although the old man still has a lot of strength in him, the end of the Adenauer era is indeed in sight. No more eloquent evidence was needed than the voting list when it came time to reconfirm der Alte in his office as C.D.U. party chairman. For the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Holdout | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

The literal truth of the Bible is the bedrock of faith for Southern Baptists. But lately, in some Baptist seminaries, scholars have been cautiously moving toward the Biblical criticism accepted by most other Protestant denominations, which suggests that parts of Holy Scripture are symbolically valid but literally impossible. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Defending the Baptist Faith | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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