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Word: reworks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the Neo-Realists are serving a purpose in trying to re-examine dreary literary habits, to rework the weary forms, the traditional plots, to stand time on its head and cut capers-as Ionesco, Beckett and Gelber have done in the theater. Whatever results finally, readers at least can be grateful that Neo-Realism's Big Three have discarded as outworn one increasingly obnoxious habit of the standard novelists. They do not bother to describe sex in morbid detail. That alone, if it catches on, could set the novel ahead ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Neo-Realists | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...Fowler Hamilton, head of the Agency for International Development. General Park outlined his five-year $2.4-billion plan for South Korea, indicated hopefully that he would like up to half of that sum to come from the U.S. Although Rusk and Hamilton made no promises and told him to rework his hastily drawn program, Park was assured that South Korea would continue to get considerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Help for Korea | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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