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Word: surreys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact remains that Oklahoma! is as anachronistic as the surrey with the fringe on top. More than any other theater form, the musical mirrors the social milieu in which it is born. This show's ostensible locale and time span are Indian territory, now Oklahoma, just before statehood. But its real dateline is U.S.A., 1943. It exudes robust confidence, the abiding force of the individual will, and a subliminal, but immutable, determination to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A-yip-i-o-ee-ay! | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...wander about the 39 sylvan acres in the heart of London and marvel at the elegance of the splendidly carpeted "cloakroom" facilities. By the curving lake they search for the celebrated flamingos, and in the scalpel-trimmed rose garden compare the Queen's blooms with their own in Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Splendor on the Grass | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...book is not so much imagined as documented. Plot developments, like Singapore rickshas, serve to convey the reader from one exhibit to another. On your right are the rubber industry warehouses, repositories of greed; ahead is Chinatown; up the hill is Tanglin the English colony's surrogate Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deluded Idyll | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

United States Attitudes Toward Multinational Corporations--Seminar with Detlev F. Vagts, professor of Law; David R. Tillinghast, Hughes, Hubbard, & Reed, NYC; Peter D. Ehrenhaft, deputy assistant secretary and special counsel, US. Dept. of the Treasury; Walter S. Surrey, Surrey, Karasik & Morse, Washington, DC; and Louis Loss, William, Nelson Crowell Professor of Law; Room 101, Roscoe Pound Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: February 22-28 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...London if he ever needed anything. A year later Scott, then 21 and reeling from a nervous breakdown, visited Thorpe at his office at Westminster. Thorpe, then 32 and a rising young bachelor M.P. from North Devon, drove Scott to his mother's house in Surrey saying that there they could "talk about things more easily." That night, said Scott, Thorpe sent him off to bed with a copy of Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 novel about homosexual love. Said Scott: "He had said I would like it. It is, in fact, a very beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Warts and All | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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