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Word: piper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anna Piper, an English authoress from Lower Mall, London, described her novels as "light, middle-class, and sexy." "I'm almost the least 'academic person' in the crowd," she said. Her novels include Early to Bed, Green for Love, and The Hot Year. Mrs. Piper finishes a book a year and has a seventh...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: International Seminar | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...painting, and hung from it some of the symbols that he often uses to give added dimension to his work.* Bohrod's bright, tuneful "Music Man" conveys the spirit of Broadway's biggest hit, which is sending audiences away marching and laughing and singing. See THEATER, Pied Piper of Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will be led by Professor Hill himself. The show winds up with an enlivened townsfolk who know the score, and a mildly reformed Pied Piper who has scored with the pretty librarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...again the barnyard Lallans breaks into a lilt: "I'm the darlin o the Muses wi their clarsachs soondan sweet, and o Pan, the skeely piper wi the dansan horny feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...tell of early Sardinia? The awesome priest, with double-handled dagger worn at chest height appears often, as do long-haired priestesses. Warriors abound, some garbed in helmets, breastplates and greaves, and capable of such feats as shooting a bow while standing on a bare-backed horse. A dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held sway throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A CULTURE IN MINIATURE | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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