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Word: stairhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple sentimental journey; he has not so much traveled as tunneled back to the '20s. Despite the sister's gabby gossiping, the kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window. There are everywhere fears, self-doubts, deep-hidden voids; something gnaws at the chatterbox sister, drills against the dentist's heart, suddenly blows up in an adolescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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