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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having seen well over forty of the works presented, the undersigned can personally attest to the extraordinary vigor and vitality of the present season. The prime value of this activity is the enjoyment and the "learning through doing" that the participants derive; the quality of the result and the size of the audience are properly secondary considerations. Still, this has not been a year of quantity alone. Happily, some of the productions have equaled the high level of excellence that characterized the efforts of the Veterans Theatre Workshop here in the late...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Harvard Theatre: 1956-1957 | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Under a banner headline, "America Conquers," the Herald shouted, "The meeting will probably go down in athletic annals as the best ever seen on this side of the water...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...slithered a sophisticated lady named Madame Zajj, and the blue moods of the orchestra panted toward violent climaxes. The show, U.S. Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...between the cross and the hammer-and-sickle. But Masses are crowded, public schools are swamped with applications for religious instruction that is once again permitted without interference. Everyone seems to be wearing crosses and holy medals, and even the prosperous Red bourgeoisie of state officials can occasionally be seen bundling their children to church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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