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Word: potpourri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magician (Swedish). A fascinating potpourri of murky symbols, eerie images and fleshy scenes by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Magician (Swedish). A fascinating potpourri of murky symbols, eerie images and fleshy scenes by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Threaded through Drum's lively editorial potpourri is a dedication to the equality of man. Drum recognizes no color line, not even on its 125-man staff, where black and white work side by side. When the Rhodesian government boasted that "better-class Africans, properly dressed and properly behaved," would not be discriminated against, Drum tailored one of its Negro reporters in an expensive suit, equipped him with a certificate of education from a white university professor, then assigned him to order a meal in a Salisbury railway station cafe. As the reporter was thrown out, Drum cameras clicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Drum Beat in Africa | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Pantomime Quiz (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A parade of charades. Diverting potpourri, even if too many kooks sometimes spoil the broth. M.C. Mike Stokie stirs up more of the same every weekday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...among the dorms, even less than among the Harvard Houses. A lengthy blurb on each dorm is bound to deteriorate into a few private jokes or a questionable attempt to attach cliches to each one--Briggs: "cool, self-assured sophistication;" Eliot: "talkative;" Holmes: "musical, spirited, homey;" Whitman: "slightly mad potpourri...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Radcliffe Yearbook | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

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