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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between 1910 and 1970 the dynamics of reading and writing have changed. Few people read habitually now-movies and T.V. provide a far more effortless escape to fill lonely nights. Reading literature is a form of active self-exploration. Unlike the movies, books demand immense concentration and visual inventiveness. There is a constant interplay between the page and wandering mind of the reader. Often he will look up entirely and lapse into a reverie suggested by the text. People read when they want to be alone with themselves, when they shun the social engineering of the media. In other words...

Author: By James P. Frosch, | Title: From the Shelf The Advocate | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...with unmitigated horror that I read the article on Wellesley in December 16's CRIMSON: It is compelling evidence, not that Wellesley has a place in education today, as the article purported to prove, but rather that Wellesley and schools like it are a major part of the female problem. In particular I was bothered by the justification that at Wellesley...

Author: By Anne R. Thornton president, | Title: The Mail WOMEN | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Cinema Kenmore Square- Ulysses, from the novel. Sec it. And read the book. 664 Beacon St., at Kenmore Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Things You May Be Forced To Do If You're All Alone This Weekend | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...opposition party banned, and he himself imprisoned for "subversion," Kenya's flamboyant, left-leaning Oginga Odinga was dismayed to find that he was not even allowed to read about the national elections. When "Double O" made a plea for newspaper privileges to President Jomo Kenyatta, his onetime pal replied: "When I was in detention, the British gave me nothing to read but the Bible. Let Odinga read that. It will do him good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...Michael Sarrazin) is an open-faced kid from a farm. Sailor (Red Buttons) is a Navy veteran whose ship has gone out. The man running the marathon-and carrying the movie-is a dime-store Barnum named Rocky (Gig Young). The son of an itinerant faith healer, Rocky has read the book on corruption and added footnotes of his own. Disgusted at what people-including himself-will do for money, he articulates the film's message: "There can only be one winner, folks, but isn't that the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marathon '32 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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