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Word: similarities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: A Novel Affair | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

...fascinated with your Nov. 25 color pictures of the horrible monstrosities we have created to defend ourselves from destruction and to destroy other people who likewise are preparing similar machines to defend themselves from destruction by us. In the frenzied direction we are now headed, to avoid sudden destruction we seem to be preparing to perish slowly, like Laika, in a bigger and better metallic cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been as subliminal as the message. But the trade weekly Broadcasting found two radio stations that reported success with a similar method: short announcements slipped quietly into natural pauses or over a musical background. Not really subliminal, they are consciously perceptible-but just barely. KLTI in Longview, Texas calls these commercials "Radio Active Iso-Spots," explains: "They get in underneath and spotlight attention, just like an isotope in medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Busy Air | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Boss had been guilty of some similar slips in an interview with Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Khrushchev was hastening to dissociate himself from the Almighty. God is John Foster Dulles' friend, he said. "Relying on God and calling his name, Dulles sends emissaries to Turkey and Jordan to kill people. The colonialists with their armies came in and brought the church and God with them. They brought the cross and the Bible to colonial countries. They left the people the religion and took all the people had." Churches are tolerated in 'the Soviet Union, said Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Onward, Atheists! | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Because he does not discriminate between science and non-science concentrators, Emerson predicted that the Medical School will continue to admit an equal percentage of the applicants from each group. An increase in the number of non-science majors will also produce a similar increase in the makeup of the first year class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rise Noted in Non-Science Med. Students | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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