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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfying relationship. What I would define as a sick person in sexual terms would be someone who could not go through the full sequence of sexual activity, from seeing and admiring to following, speaking, touching, and genital contact. A rapist, a person who makes obscene telephone calls?these seem to me sick people, and I don't think it matters a damn whether the other person is of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Discussion: Are Homosexuals Sick? | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Judge Smith found that the words Kikuga and Kikugis seem to mean nothing in any African language. Ruling that the name would mislead the petitioner's future students, the judge said that other black Americans are teaching African culture "without resort to such subterfuge as changing their patronymics." Besides, he went on, Middleton is "a fine American name." Despite the decision, the future teacher is determined to get court approval for becoming Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He hopes to find a more receptive judge than Irving Smith-whose immigrant forebears' name was changed when they came from Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petitions: A Fine American Name | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...believes in young love, freedom and graciously decadent living. She feeds all the cats in her Paris suburb, writes daily letters to herself, lives in a mansion and worries equally about her 9-ft. feather boa and the loss, many years past, of her only lover. She would seem to be easy prey for a cartel of international shysters (Yul Brynner, Paul Henreid,* Charles Boyer, Donald Pleasence and Oscar Homolka among them) who have discovered oil under the old lady's property. But she will not be moved, and she wins the aid of some colorful companions-a ragpicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Doily and the Dumpling | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...remarkable degree, these three short novels about witchcraft in 16th and 17th century France seem to have been observed and recorded, rather than written. The characters are not propelled here and there by the author; their movements are their own. This is true of all good fiction, of course. Stories and novels are not clockwork but life systems, given energy by the author's inner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clay and Fire | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Tommy Stephanian, the Armenian proprietor of Tommy's Lunch commented yesterday afternoon, "I'm glad to see that after all these years. Harvard's finally realized that there are Armenians around here. A lot of the citizens and businessmen around Harvard Square are Armenians, and they [Harvard] don't seem to know it." he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen-Year Community Campaign Founds Chair in Armenian Studies | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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