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Word: tempests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeated." But after Kefauver received telegrams of welcome from De Sapio and Governor Harriman, McGrath cooled down, accepted the explanation of local leaders: they were busy 24 hours a day getting voters registered for the election, could not spare time even to accompany their candidate. Said McGrath: "Merely a tempest in a teapot. Forget all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Absent Treatment | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...raucous weeks, Italy's top TV show, Lascia o Raddoppia (Double or Quits'), which is frankly modeled after the $64,000 Question, rocked the nation. Tempest in the TV pot was balloon-bosomed Maria Luisa Garoppa, 23, a tobacco shopkeeper from northern Italy whose knowledge of Greek drama is only surpassed by her unusual measurements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 45-19-39 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...poets he has chosen range from Auden and Emily Dickinson through John Quincy Adams to Shakespeare, whose Epilogue to The Tempest provides a sol emn Prayer Response: My ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees all faults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Music | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Group 20 Players at Wellesley's Theatre-on-the-Green have already begun their season, which will run into September and will feature such worth-while plays at Goethe's "Faust," Shakespere's "The Tempest," and revised version of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nearby Groups Offer Summer Theatre Fare | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...professor scoffs, "He's groping for a comprehensive theory of the universe with Newton's Principia as his ideal." A social relations tutor observes, "His followers are as avid as Marxists." And Pravda replies, "He's a tool of capitalistic warmongers." But while the scholarly tempest brews, Professor of Sociology Talcott Parsons answers for himself--"Heavens, let's not go off the deep...

Author: By Peter R. Breggin, | Title: The Empire Builder | 5/16/1956 | See Source »

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