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Word: owls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacob's ladders of sunshine, a parade of deer, fox, owl and bear, and a vigorous outdoor atmosphere that practically chills the viewer's nostrils, all give the film an air of actuality. Parents know better. Sam spends five months without a bowl of cereal or a pair of rubbers, yet never catches a cold, never asks for a glass of water at night and never needs a Band-Aid. My Side of the Mountain may be as delightful as Walden but it is plainly as fantastic as Snow White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gold in the Straw | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Among the small wonders of the great age of Queen Victoria is the fact that the Queen herself once had a drawing master who wrote The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Subsidized as they were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...well received at the Atma in Slave and Dutchman, is one of the few actors to leave the theatre, going to the Seattle (Wash.) Repertory Company. William Utay, Rick Bailey, and Lelani Johnson (Bailey's wife) came up from Dallas, Texas and SMU to put together Bill Hanhoff's Owl and the Pussycat on ten days' notice. The production closed out the last two weeks of the Atma in Castle Square...

Author: By Stephen D. Mikesell, | Title: The Atma Cries 'Alarum' | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

...Broadway sabbatical. Hamlet, on the other hand, affects a black leather jacket. He appears to be missing his motorcycle rather than his plundered crown. The ghost of Hamlet's father seems to have raided a bird sanctuary for his outfit; he looks like a huge quivering snowy owl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Zombie Hamlet | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...Yard. The Houses are not merely buildings for eating and sleeping, they function as centers of social and intellectual activity, as communities in which a student holds membership. For the 3,000 graduate students of today there is nothing whatever to perform these functions unless we count that owl's share of Harkness that is wrested away from the panthers of the Law School. Nor do the apartments for married graduate students in Peabody Terrace, agreeable hough they are, fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wolff Report: Even Graduate Students Feel Neglected and Lonely | 3/10/1969 | See Source »

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