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Word: stageful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions: a folk tale of giants and dwarfs and transformations, and a good ironic belt at English politics. The stage Irishman, or rollicking boyo, which developed later, is really a put-on that lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OBSERVATIONS UPON THE IRISH | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

According to the official program, the leaders had come to consider "the most urgent question of our time?the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle at the present stage and the unity of action of Communist and workers' parties, of all anti-imperialist forces." But the participants knew the real purpose of the meeting. Alarmed by divisions and defiance within Communism, the Soviet Union was out to salvage as much as possible of its once uncontested primacy over the movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A HOUSE DIVIDED, A FAITH FRAGMENTED | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Functionally, Marxism is a vision, belonging more to poetics than to science or politics. It began as a sensitive man's response to an early stage of a fundamental transformation in the human condition. The great change that had set in by the middle of the 19th century still rolls on, gathering speed and extending its breadth. Today, as in Marx's time, men feel the change as both a threat and a promise. It evokes fear and hope simultaneously. The Marxist vision is a peculiar, sometimes deadly-but for many men an effective-way of perceiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: MARXISM: THE PERSISTENT VISION | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...Ellman built up a thriving vending-machine and cafeteria business that he sold for $50,000 in 1958. He then sank the proceeds into a modest Man hattan steak house. He redecorated it in dude-ranch western, renamed it the Cattleman, promoted it fiercely with various gimmicks, including free stage coach rides for the kiddies. The weekly gross quintupled, from $12,000 to $60,000, within a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Trompe I'Oeil Restaurant | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...traumatic experience of his life. His only produced play, Guy Domville, opened to jeers from a London first-night audience. Despite appreciative reviews by Shaw and H. G. Wells, among others, James' overliterary drama closed after hardly more than "15 vulgar nights of the odious stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turn of the Screw | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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