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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Towards the end of Act I Blanche says to her sister, "I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! But this line is delivered as though by a tired prostitute, and not by a woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other places. The last town may surprise you (it certainly did this interviewer), but not so once Dr. Prakash has explained the rather unique aspect...

Author: By Michael C. D. macdonald, | Title: Summer Art: Prakash, Pearlman, Wertheim, Warburg, Kahn; Museum Director, Four Major Collections Visit Harvard | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...quoted in an art review, I'll draw a somewhat shaky parallel from his political mots justes and urge all 3850 of my potential readers to walk the "extra mile" across the Yard to the Fogg Museum for a truly rewarding meeting at the summit of this past century...

Author: By Michael C. D. macdonald, | Title: Summer Art: Prakash, Pearlman, Wertheim, Warburg, Kahn; Museum Director, Four Major Collections Visit Harvard | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

SOCIAL SECURITY FUND will run $87 million in red for fiscal year, which began July 1. Higher social security taxes, which went into effect last Jan. 1, are expected to boost fund's income over outgo, starting in 1961; fund's $1.5 billion deficit, accumulated over past three years, is scheduled to be repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Past ?200,000, only four bidders were still left battling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adoration of the £ | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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