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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridge lovers will appreciate your Goren article in the Sept. 29 issue. But you seem to credit the increased slam bonuses to Mr. Vanderbilt and some of his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Marlon were bust. Sighed she: "I can no longer take his indifference and his strange way of living." Commented Hollywood Seer Hedda Hopper: "He has a terrific following among members of the Beat Generation. He loves the adulation of a mob. After that, going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Down Beatnik | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...failure as man and lover, her son's weakness. She secretly despises her son's pretty and docile fiancee, is candid enough to guess that she is actually jealous of her independent daughter. As life at home becomes unbearable, Valeria's office job begins to seem like a kindly refuge. And when her rich and thoughtful boss makes the inevitable proposition, her disillusionment becomes his strongest ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Number in the Air | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Pranksters, frat brothers, and Brown and White editors seem to anticipate restrictive policy changes in the Dean's Office. Dean Leith, on the other hand, says this: "Lehigh is an educational institution dedicated to high quality performances. This proposition explains almost everything about the university, including the persistent intolerance of everything that is second-rate...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

When he first comes on stage, he is disappointing; without makeup and costumes, he looks like Arthur Murray. But he gives each fragment a life of its own--which is one reason they seem so wrong together. As he changes from Hamlet to Polonius, from Hotspur to Richard II to Lear, his voice and his very face change with the part...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: Shakespeare's Ages of Man | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

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