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Word: rotted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes, the female is frequently "a fantastically consuming monster or an incredibly pathetic drab." and the male is "a ragingly lustful beast or a limp, handsome, neutral creature of otherworldly purity." The homosexual's view of human relations distorts normal man-woman situations, and "the audience senses rot at the drama's core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Homosexuals & the Stage | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Each morning at Trung Lap, Sergeant Guy Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGHT WAR IN THE JUNGLE | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Directed largely at the year-round residents, Currier's arrows also twanged toward the summer people, whom he calls "the Codfish Aristocracy; they come here and rot with cocktail parties, and when they entertain our stars, they do so to show them off as freaks to their guests." If the Kennebunkport Playhouse makes it to the last item on his 1961 schedule, the summer people and the year-rounders will again be watching Edward Everett Horton in Springtime for Henry. Then, if anyone comes along with the $300,000 asking price for the Playhouse, what will Robert C. Currier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straw Hat: To Be Announced | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...With 16% of the world's forests, Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: RAW STRENGTH IN BRAZIL | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...comparable fluency and grace, and few could equal him in his communion with those other 18th century masters, Haydn and Handel. But apart from being a conductor and impresario. Beecham had another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cut Out the Cant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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