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Word: rabidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failures who hate achievers, the yapping feist pack that tries to drown out truth, those who dislike Jews, Negroes, Catholics, liberals." He won a Pulitzer Prize for a 1958 editorial that deplored the bombings of an Atlanta synagogue and a newly integrated Tennessee high school as the work of "rabid, mad-dog minds" and warned: "When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe." Yet McGill could also write warmly of "the acrid, nostalgic smell of wood burning beneath the weekly washday pots; the pine-and-oak smoke from chimneys of farmhouses fighting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Death of a Conscience | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand makes her movie debut in a loud musical biography of Fanny Brice. Miss Streisand is onscreen most of the time, which may delight rabid fans, but can give others a sense of uneasy familiarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Carol White), abandons his emotions, his conscience and his home. His destination is the ancient Russian Orthodox city of Kiev, where he promptly sends himself to hell by passing as a gentile. In scenes that seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid anti-Semite, makes Bok a trusted employee until Lebedev's daughter Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman) falsely accuses the fixer of rape. The recriminatory shriek becomes a chorus when religious fanatics also accuse Bok of ritual murder. The fixer is seized and imprisoned. The . machinery of the state begins: moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two-Thirds of Greatness | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that of Imperial Rome. Hairdos, fashions and morals reached undreamed-of heights, lengths and depths. Theaters, operas and court ballets were packed the year round, while gentlefolk staged amateur theatricals by the score in their chateaux and country houses. Costume balls, hunts, public spectacles and private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Final Masquerade | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Kennedy-Johnson administration, Thornberry began to establish a reputation for himself as a "Southern moderate." He had voted against most of the watered-down civil rights measures of the fifties, and tended to vote with the "conservative coalition" more often than not during that time, but he avoided the rabid racism and extreme conservatism of the deep Southern block...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: The Fortas Reflex | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

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