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Word: soothes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music and Mr. Morey's tightly- packed lyrical lines prove almost too much for several members of the cast. Peter Fine (who plays the town's first citizen, a retired army officer named General Will) is insufficiently daring, and Edna Epstein, as a batty sooth-sayer, seems to have trouble hearing the orchestra, and lacking real stage presence, she gets flustered...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Babel | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...sooth, Alcibiades, the Philosopher King has come. Which one, you say? How should I know? There are so many." The only thing proponents of nuclear war have in common is a fear that the atomic bomb will become obsolete and so they give it good press as the quickest way to salvation. I suppose their ultimate goal is to have it included in the Lord's Prayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE MAIL | 11/13/1961 | See Source »

...past two months, the Museo de Reproducciones Artisticas in Madrid has been showing the greatest exhibition of works by Velásquez ever assembled, plus some by his predecessors, his contemporaries and his students. The show commemorates the sooth anniversary of the artist's death, but it is also an attempt on the part of Spain to put Velásquez in proper focus. To the modern eye, his canvases have seemed somewhat static alongside the high drama of El Greco and the agonized intensity of Goya. Yet Velásquez sang a song of life as rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: WITH AFFECTION AND RESPEC | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...which are crammed with relics of one of the most bitter religious wars Europe has known. They were marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Cevennes region, which saw so much of the historic struggle with Roman Catholicism, and the sooth anniversary of the death of Protestantism's great restorer, Antoine Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Camisards Revisited | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...tragedy about Enobarbus as one can call Julius Caesar a tragedy about Brutus. Donald Davis' traversal of Enobarbus' famous Barge narration is not up to par, but his later scenes of repentance and death are powerful acting Rae Allen (Charmian), Will Geer (Agrippa), Claude Woolman (Menas), and Richard Waring (Sooth-sayer) are commendable in smaller parts; but Patrick Hires' cracking falset-to as the eunuch Mardian is a miscalculation...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Antony and Cleopatra | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

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