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Word: suggestive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud on TV. Examples : the stilted, literally translated phraseology that Hemingway used to suggest Spanish ("What passes with you?" "How are you called?") and the mountainside love scene ("Oh, I die each time. Do you not die?" "No. Almost. But did you feel the earth move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: It Didn't Move | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...fairly tall, modest man who looks about twenty-five, and is mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

...Department has full justification for not experimenting extensively with new dishes or combinations. More surveys might help the situation somewhat, but the initiative for kitchen-undergraduate rapport must come from the students themselves. House committees might consider polls or tours as worthwhile activities, and undergraduates should not hesitate to suggest changes and give opinions about the food. For $590 per year, any Harvard student certainly has the right to complain or praise, to suggest or condemn--but very few use this privilege...

Author: By Daniel N. Flickinger, | Title: Dining Hall Department Faces Price Squeeze | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

There is insiderable talk in railroad circles these days that only one bold measure can possibly save the New Haven from financial ruin. Theorists suggest that if Mr. Alpert started running special trains for professors travelling to fulfill television commitments, he would halt the deepening slump in his company's passenger revenues...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Moral Compensation | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I, The Jury | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

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