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Word: romanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Episcopalians because of Pike's counseling and friendship, one of us a former Congregationalist, who did not believe enough, the other a former Roman Catholic, who was called on to believe too much. Pike is a great mind, a great spirit and a great Christian in the fullest sense of that special word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...take it over as a park. Today, California's Department of Parks is bursting with pride. In less than a decade, the Enchanted Hill has brought in $6,163,182 from tourists eager to pay $2 each for the privilege of being ushered through its vaulted halls, past Roman baths, and into a billiard room hung with a Gobelin tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parks: San Simeon Revisited | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

They say that St. Genesius, the patron saint of the theatre, was a Roman burlesque comic. He must have been watching over Forum--happy as a saint, that the proceeds will go to Radcliffe's charitable Grant-in-Aid; and pleased, as a pro, that this production is such a funny thing...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...plenty of sight-gags and a Burlesque flavor, the two prerequisites for getting boffs. But you laugh hardest when the pace is fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When he sings, there is Merman...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...that sort of thing. You'll be flying our new steam-powered jobs. Your maps, I'm afraid, are a little out-of-date, but you'll have no trouble. You'll fly out over Gaul and drop your bombs just north of the Holy Roman Empire -but don't fly too far or you'll fall off. When you're shot down, pretend to be a tourist. We have provided you with a manual containing such typical German phrases as 'Get out of my way before I kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Foftly, Foftly, Blowf the Gale | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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