Word: riche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, winning, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain gal who yearns to make a splash in Denver society...
...discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor...
Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
...Rich. Marya Mannes is a stately, handsome, sharp-tongued woman who enjoys nothing more than rising at a banquet table and flailing the be-jeesus out of her hosts. She once told the Women's National Press Club that, in most cities in America, the public "buys your papers to hold up at breakfast or to line the trash can or to light a fire, but not to learn...
...villains in U.S. life are "the old and the rich, who have come to think of our way of life as the only way." The advertisers, particularly television advertisers, play so insidiously on the emotions of America "that they must bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills or the bottle." They have foisted on women a vision of themselves as homemakers that has crippled large numbers of them intellectually as well as emotionally...