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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently than in the past. Then there are Senator S. from Missouri and Governor B. from California and Governor W. from Michigan and Governor M. from New Jersey, all of whom are very active these days winning friends and denying everything. Senator J. from Texas, who many sophisticated observers say has been President since 1953 anyway, continues to keep everyone in Washington almost happy at the same time, carefully spreading himself wtih intriguing regularity over the front page of the New York Times. And Governor S. from Illinois, who has actually broken down and run before, has something printable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age of Consent | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...smell of tobacco emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

Owing to the encroachment of the Mikado's set, the available acting area is, to say the least, minuscule. But James Peters has backed it with a delightfully drawn setting, and W. Reginald Parker has deployed his charges as flexibly as a postage stamp will allow...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...statistical analysis indicates that 10 of the 12 disputed Federalist Papers were probably written by James Madison. "I am inclined to say that Federalist Number 50 seems to be by Madison, and Number 54 is closer to Hamilton," Charles F. Mosteller, Chairman of the Department of Statistics, said last night in a lecture describing his statistical study ascertaining authorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statistician Identifies Federalist Authors | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all alternatives...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Calls Pathos, Not Tragedy, 'Motif of Our Self-Consciousness' | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

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