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Word: spotlights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotlight then smiled and introduced Mort Sahl, "The world's only working philosopher...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Thimk | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured by an unknown named Jethro, who plays the part of the village idiot...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Love Me Tender and The Desperadoes Are in Town | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

Anthony Boucher, the editor of Fantasy in Science Fiction, represents the second important viewpoint. As he maintains, "Non-slice-of-life fiction gives the author a chance to spotlight and to examine in greater detail certain aspects of human behavior." This could rightly be called the literary viewpoint. Boucher, it might be added, is the mystery book editor for the New York Times...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham and Robert H. Neuman, S | Title: Science Fiction Does Not Mean Spaceship Cowboys | 11/2/1956 | See Source »

...candidates who prominently shared the spotlight with Dwight Eisenhower when the President flew down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Jumbo Prize | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About the Supplement | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

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