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Word: preysing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The propagandist playwrights of the 1930's have, both politically and artistically, plummeted out of popular favor. Their folksy brand of unflinching radicalism--often Marxism--makes sense neither to the new leftist nor the new liberal. And the grim seriousness with which they tackled boring problems like poverty and bigotry...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Awake and Sing | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

Thursday, September 21 IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In "The Leaf in the Forest," Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside ensnares a psychopathic strangler who preys on lonely old women. Eve Whitfield, disguised as a 70-year-old spinster, acts as foil.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 22, 1967 | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Room 1026, the Audubon Suite, is occupied by Kevin McCarthy and Catherine Spaak, a hotel tycoon and the ornamental mistress he has purchased with his profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clean Towels & Dirty People | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

"Here," of course, was an important qualification. Massachusetts politics are still at a stage that would have alarmed turn-of-the-century muck-rakers. Any politician worth his shirt in this state gets into either house of Congress as fast as he can and leaves local business to a poor...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Burial Ground For Liberalism | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Bullets & Combs. Oliver Treyz (rhymes with preys), a math major (Hamilton College), a statistical control officer in the Army, a network and ad-agency research man, was admittedly no creator.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Rub-Out | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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