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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young woman of today buying art just to match the draperies." As a member of a cooperative formed by 75 local artists, I had a prospective "young woman" purchaser urge me to paint a picture that would complement the color of a lamp shade in her living room. She described the size it should be, showed me where it would hang, but was totally disinterested in subject matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Chatting with newsmen in his Portland dining room one day last week, Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, once known in senatorial halls for his partisan wrangling and headline catching, quietly mused about some new changes in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Lease on Life | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...college professor. I think now it would be almost impossible to get angry at someone over a political issue. And it doesn't make any difference any more if my wife squeezes toothpaste from the top or the bottom, if the biscuits are burned, or if the living room is cluttered. It isn't true, as you might believe by listening to the speeches and excitement of political conventions, that one party has all the answers and that members of the other party all should be swinging by their tails. I never could again be bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Lease on Life | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans. Bee readers expect thorough news coverage as a matter of course. The Sacramento Bee, biggest of the three, maintains a city-room staff of 70, and keeps a full-time squad of six newsmen on the state legislature beat. A string of 238 correspondents services all three papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Valley of the Bees | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...everyone gets the best seat in the house," says Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. "That is proper for a democracy, is it not?" The "best seat" is a living room sofa facing a wall equipped with two speakers six to eight feet apart. If listener and speakers are positioned correctly, there seems to issue from the wall a wave of what is known as stereophonic sound. Nothing has so excited listeners and record makers since, more than a decade ago, the long-playing disk ushered in the Age of High Fidelity. Stereophony's extra clarity and depth have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rise of Stereo | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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