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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspects, and with the help of ever-solicitous Carlotta, O'Neill sat up, grasped a sheaf of papers in his palsied hands and thrust it to the flames. No telling what was in the five plays so carefully dispatched by the man who made them; O'Neill considered the stuff worthless. He certainly fixed the scholars probing his socioneuro-anthropologic motives that...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: A Touch of the Poet | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...area, modern jazz is not much better off. Yet during the past few years people have noticed a remarkable internal shift in Harvard jazz activity from the day when it was "all dixie with a modern jazz splinter" to today, when a student can remark: "Dixie's joe-college stuff; you find it in your state universities, or maybe at Brown, but it's out of place here." In the opinion of most observers Steve Kuhn, more than any other force, has caused this change to a modern jazz approach from the neo-dixie outlook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cools Cats Who Thrive On Dixieland, Modern Jazz, Jive; Coffee-Houses May Bring Revival | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

American abstract expressionist painting "is not likely to be rubbed out." It just does not exist. That stuff is an effort to paint, which is frustrated by robot ethics-America's interpretation of what culture is. America has no human culture whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Sardis would prove extremely interesting, but they could not excavate them because they did not know exactly where the Lydian Sardis stood. The whole Sardis region, 45 miles inland from Turkey's modern Izmir, is cluttered with Greek, Roman and Christian ruins. When diggers explored this relatively common stuff they did not find Lydian Sardis under it. This summer, a joint Harvard-Cornell expedition led by Professor George Hanfmann of Harvard, made another effort. Last week came the announcement that the site of Lydian Sardis has finally been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where Croesus Reigned | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because, like his ex-pitcher father, called La Mala, Héctor's stuff is sneaky quick, Righthander Torres had kept Monterrey going most of the season with good control and a fine fast ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mexico's Heroes | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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