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Word: representations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laurence's bold advertising copy is a lie too-a slick attempt to sell merchandise by creating illusions of spurious wellbeing. As for her husband's building developments, they represent nothing but built-in, functional ugliness. As a man, she concludes, he is just another cipher, an interchangeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Second Sex Revisited | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Krause's world record performance earned him a three-week trip to Europe as part of an American swimming delegation. According to Krause, his only instructions were to "have a good time, represent America faithfully, and swim well," in that order. Krause followed this advice admirably.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krause Sets Pool Marks As 'Best Yardling Ever' | 2/21/1968 | See Source »

As the battle heightened, Los Angeles Catholics began choosing up sides. Public manifestos of support for the nuns have come from the recently formed Los Angeles Association of Laymen, 29 Jesuits from Loyola University, and ten priests and brothers from the city's Franciscan Theological Seminary. A rival lay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What to Wear? | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge. Vidal and his publisher, insisting that the sexual problems of the title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra the Messiah | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

THIS week's fast has effectively increased commitment within the Harvard community to work against the war. To call the fast a waste of energy is to engage in the self indulgent pettifoggery which has been so damaging to the anti-war movement since its inception. There is no totality...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: In Defense of the Fast | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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